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Growing coconuts, shrubs and flowering plants enough for them to thrive in a desert clime requires devotion.

That’s why social media users have admired Sinan Al Awsi, 62, for his incredible accomplishment of planting 200 trees in his district here.

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00:00I moved to Abu Dhabi, and I moved between the site offices, which are mostly in the desert.
00:07So I learned the love of agriculture, I brought it from Iraq, and I moved to Malaysia, and I arrived here in the UAE.
00:16So, you know, site offices, and soil, and sand, and this, so I started, in front of the site offices, I planted.
00:25In 2005, and I planted. Then I moved to Al Mishrab. Then I moved to Al Mishrab Villa.
00:29I planted the whole street there, behind the police station. Yes, yes.
00:33There is a crime scene, this is in front of the building, which you saw. Yes, yes.
00:40I planted. Then, on the left side of the building, first on the right side of the building.
00:45On the left side of the building, 60 cm of land. Yes.
00:49I bought red sand. Yes.
00:51I bought it. Yes.
00:53And I made a wall for it.
00:55And I paved it. And I planted it completely, similar to the one on the right.
00:59I mean, a mirror, let's say. Yes, yes.
01:01A tree from here, a tree from there. This type from here, from there.
01:04They are the same. They are the same.
01:06I mean, both sides.
01:08My ambition is bigger. This area is not enough for me, which is about 25 meters.
01:16So, I took it on the right, and I extended it.
01:19Pipes, these black plastic pipes.
01:22I put drippers on it.
01:26And I connected it to the network.
01:28And of course, it is an engineering work.
01:33First of all, I entered it as a wedding.
01:37Because it is the palace of research.
01:39The palace of research. All the sheikhs.
01:42The citizens who are present.
01:44During the night, this gathering is not easy.
01:47I mean, I didn't come on purpose.
01:50But they had a gathering or something.
01:54It seems that he asked me to be present in this gathering.
01:57I arrived.
01:59So, from the side of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed.
02:03He held my hand.
02:05What?
02:09So, when we started, I didn't know what happened.
02:13He welcomed me.
02:15He thanked me for what I did.
02:17His face turned white.
02:19I mean, such a speech comes from the highest official in the state.
02:26You walk with joy.
02:29Joy.
02:31This is what I felt.
02:33He asked me if I wanted to sit there.
02:35I said no, you can sit next to me.
02:37I sat.
02:39I was inspired by the speech.
02:41I said to myself, I will sit in this place.
02:44So, it is a great joy that cannot be described.
02:48This is my feeling.
02:50He works here in the UAE.
02:52He offers humanitarian work.
02:54Donation.
02:56Volunteer work.
02:58Other than that, if he takes a salary, he doesn't waste it.
03:02Not in the face of God, nor in the face of the UAE.
03:05So, this sentence, I want it to be a subtitle or something.
03:11Or my message, the message of Engineer Sinan to everyone,
03:15not only to the residents,
03:18to those who live on this good land,
03:21the good spring,
03:23that he doesn't waste it in the face of the UAE.
03:26The truth of the word.
03:40The truth of the word.
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