Hudson

Hudson began his journey as a young changemaker at the age of 15 as a volunteer at an NGO he had been involved with since his childhood. It was there that he first heard the story of one of his students, who was food insecure. Years later, while working as a young scientist in high school, he used his knowledge to study and find solutions to the pollution of the Barigui river located in the metropolitan region of his city, Curitiba. He founded, “Desintoxicacao: aguas que salvam, hortas que transformam” (Detoxification: water that saves, gardens that transform) from the desire to apply the results found from his previous research experience to positively impact the food system in his city. The initiative led to a seed filtration system to decontaminate the Barigui river water, with the hopes of then using this water to irrigate the community gardens along its banks. With the pandemic and the difficulties of carrying out field work, Hudson and his team started to collect food donations as a means of offering assistance to those living in food insecure area. At this point, the group is also preparing to distribute booklets about their seed filtration system so that other young people in Brazil can reproduce, test, or adapt the initiative. Thus far, in addition to two colleagues and his grandmother, Hudson already has the support of three more young people from other states in Brazil.