Growing your own fruits and vegetables is beneficial to your health for many reasons. It encourages you and your family to eat more fresh produce. You get to decide if you want to use fertilizers and pesticides, and if so, which ones. It also lets you control when to harvest your food; vegetables that ripen in the garden have more nutrients than some store-bought vegetables that must be picked early. That being said, Qatar’s climate and soil do not provide ideal conditions for growing many kinds of fruits and vegetables. The hot weather is tougher on plants than it is…
Author: Tessa Kerkvliet
Gaining actual, meaningful work experience as a teenager in Doha is difficult. Whereas my teenager immediately landed a job stocking shelves at a local supermarket in The Netherlands on his 14th birthday, part-time paid work for teens is virtually non-existent in Qatar. That may not stop teens from trying to earn a few extra riyals, but the biggest disadvantage to not having more work experience options for teens in Doha is the difference it makes on their future university or job applications.Obviously, good grades are important when it comes to applying to university, but as any college counsellor will tell you,…