Mohamed Samad is the founder of Shagara at School, an initiative to help combat global warming and provide for the lack of activities at schools with a profitable educational project. Its activities include; planting trees at schools, rooftop farming, helping students learn how to protect their environment and start giving to their own community. It is also an alternative income source for schools. Additionally, the project employs green materials and integrates marginalized communities into its supply chain to maximize their income.
Students, teachers and other people working at school learned and started replicating the model in their own houses and rooftops. Through promoting planting and rooftop farming, Ashraf is enhancing citizenship values and raising awareness among children about environmental responsibilities.
Realizing how it is important to start looking for alternative solutions to save the environment and raise income levels, students perpetuated the process in different neglected areas at the school. Neighboring houses started farming their rooftops after noticing the school top, and the school became widely known in the neighborhood, by El Shagra School (Arabic for “The Tree School”?).