In addition to its reputation for education and research, affordability at the University of Manitoba, and Winnipeg, influenced my decision. This was made up for by the friendly warmth of the people I met. I remember my breath condensing in the cold outside. I started school in the winter semester, so my first taste of Canada was a cold, Winnipeg January. Part of my decision in choosing Canada over another country was its friendly immigration policies and opportunities to stay after completing my degree. I chose the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg because of its reputation for world class education and research. I came to Canada for a new, challenging experience as part of my university education. Still in the development phase, the vision for Badaya is to grow and produce food vertically and hydroponically, housed in an energy-efficient growth building that uses renewable energies to sustain itself. Dogo says he recognizes that industrial agriculture is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which threatens the stability of the food supply chain.
He has co-founded Badaya, a carbon-neutral vertical farming initiative based out of Winnipeg, with the primary objective to balance adapting to the changing climate and mitigating further warming of our planet in agriculture. As an elected student leader at the University, he leads sustainability campaigns and advises sustainability policy on campus and through the Manitoba Government Youth Advisory Council on Climate. He brought with him dreams of changing the world for the better through setting up a social impact-driven business.ĭogo believes our world’s most pressing issue is climate change.
In 2018, Zimbabwe-born Tino Dogo moved to Canada to study biology with a minor in political science at the University of Manitoba.
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