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Mary Jade Gabanes Wins Bayer Young Environmental Leader Award
For promoting environmental education among children with special needs, a Filipino student won the Bayer Young Environmental Leader Award Thursday night here (early Friday in Manila) along with three other young environmentalists from around the world.
Muli of Kenya, Mary Jade Gabanes of the Philippines, Maria Rosa Reyes Acosta of Ecuador, Sarah Ervinda Rudianto of Indonesia and Michael Preuss, head of Corporate Policy and Media Relations, Bayer AG Communications. Photo credit: globalnation.inquirer.net
Winners will receive project support from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and global company Bayer, which have been jointly implementing the youth program since 1998.
Gabanes hopes to inspire others to take better care of the environment by showing that special needs children could do the same despite their limitations.
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