Pinoy youth receives intl award for turning human waste into fertilizer
For his innovative community project that teaches youths how to turn human waste into high-grade, organic fertilizer, a Filipino youth — Jed Christian Sayre — received the award from the International Youth Foundation (IYF).
According to a news release of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Sayre, a councilor of Libertad town in Misamis Oriental, was chosen for his "Disadvantaged Youth Ecological Sanitation and Organic Vegetable Production Project."
A report of the Philippine Embassy in Mexico, where the awarding ceremony was held on October 4, said Sayre carried out the project through the Ecosan Club he founded with his cousin Ivan.
Sayre was one of the 20 awardees of the Youth Action Net Awards of the IYF.
IYF President and Chief Executive Officer William Reese said in the 10 years that they have been giving the awards, there have been about 200 awardees, nine of whom are Filipinos.
Sayre's project aimed to promote simple, low-cost solutions to health, sanitation, and soil fertility problems in their rural community.
Under the project, youths from the community were trained on how to transform human waste into high-grade, organic fertilizer.
According to a news release of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Sayre, a councilor of Libertad town in Misamis Oriental, was chosen for his "Disadvantaged Youth Ecological Sanitation and Organic Vegetable Production Project."
A report of the Philippine Embassy in Mexico, where the awarding ceremony was held on October 4, said Sayre carried out the project through the Ecosan Club he founded with his cousin Ivan.
Sayre was one of the 20 awardees of the Youth Action Net Awards of the IYF.
IYF President and Chief Executive Officer William Reese said in the 10 years that they have been giving the awards, there have been about 200 awardees, nine of whom are Filipinos.
Sayre's project aimed to promote simple, low-cost solutions to health, sanitation, and soil fertility problems in their rural community.
Under the project, youths from the community were trained on how to transform human waste into high-grade, organic fertilizer.
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