#MEET Healthy Meat Processing and Packaging

#MEET Healthy Meat Processing and Packaging

This is a short interview we conducted with Abdul-Jabbar Zia Usman the creator of Healthy Meat Processing and Packaging. If you like this project and would like to vote for it, click here.

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1. Please, tell us a bit about yourself: where are you from and what is your background?

My name is Abdul-Jabbar Zia Usman. As a kid, I have always been inquisitive as I grew up in an environment where poor people reside in the Edo state of Nigeria. I always used to wonder if there is anything I can do to ameliorate their suffering. So with time, I did my primary and secondary school studies, after which I enrolled in several business capacity building workshops in Kaduna Business School and SMEDAN(small and Medium Enterprises Agency of Nigeria) and I have a passion for social entrepreneurship; to add, create and renew value. I have been involved in the business for 5 years. I have the ability to work with a team and motivate them to buy into my goals whilst seeing it as theirs. And I get my influence from the philanthropic activities of successful business leaders like the Elumelus and gates of this world and I have a strong affinity towards nature like going out to the zoo, visiting the wilderness, watching National Geographic channel and related channels. As I like to conserve nature.

2. Can you describe your idea or project in two sentences?

What we do is basically to buy live animals and fatten if not at desired weight and process and package healthily for onward sales.

3. How did you get your idea or concept?

From the lifestyle of the society, we are wont to say in Nigeria"disease no de kill African man" i.e. diseases don't kill an African man. And diarrheal diseases alone is the 4th leading cause of death in Nigeria and 3rd in Africa.

4. What is unique about your idea/project and how does it benefit mankind?

We customize healthy protein extracts and white meat from chicken and grass cutter for those customers who are prone to risks of high Cholesterol and cancer like elderly people. we provide a holistic product that meets health needs in an ecologically sustainable way making use of natural grass and soybean in our animal fattening procedures. And indeed we are developing our app known as "Nama" so qualitatively packaged meat products are just a click away.

5. Describe yourself as an entrepreneur in one sentence

As an initiator or modifier who likes to challenge the norm.

6. How do you deal with people that doubt your abilities/initiatives?

I create the opportunity to prove my capabilities especially if such people are critical to me.

7. Where does your passion lie?

In entrepreneurship, trying to create a change and in nature.

 8. What are you afraid of or what keeps you up at night?

Nothing

9. According to you, money is a synonym for.....

Means.

10. If you could rid the world of three things, what would they be?

1. Poverty
2. Diseases
3. War

11. What are the benefits you take from the Entrepreneurship Campus?

It provided me a platform to network, improve my idea and develops my capacity further by making use of the resources provided.

12. What do you like more about the Entrepreneurship Campus?

The Networking

13. Which idea/project do you like most?

Healthy Meat Processing and Packaging

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