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NORSUnian gets top NYLC award

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The president of the Association of Young Environmental Journalists was adjudged Most Outstanding Delegate in a leadership congress held in Iloilo.

Javan Lev Poblador, a Computer Engineering junior from Negros Oriental State University, bested 18 other delegates at the Visayas leg of the 2018 National Young Leaders Conference held in the municipality of San Miguel, Iloilo City.

“We were able to talk about our own organizations, and what we’ve been doing,” Poblador said, “and it was really all about extending our line of network to help each other push for environmental sustainability.”

Aside from the award, Poblador also won Best Proposal where he and his team pitched a Green School projected called “Green and Teach.”

“After we had a community immersion in Sitio Samlagi in San Miguel, we were asked to come up with a proposal that would help the community, which relied heavily on coal and quarry extraction,” Poblador said.

“Green and Teach” would focus on green education and help boost the livelihood of the community through sustainable agriculture. The project that they proposed had to be in line with Sustainable Development Goal 7 (affordable and clean energy) and SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production).

The project presented at the NYLC are being reviewed by the LGU for final implementation.

The 2018 NYLC aims to empower and engage premier student leaders to help in materializing the SDGs by 2030. The Visayas leg is spearheaded by West Visayan State University College of Arts & Sciences Student Council, in partnership with the LGU of San Miguel, Iloilo, and the Asia Pacific Youth Exchange – Manila Inc.

Delegates of the conference came from the Department of Environmental & Natural Resources, Society of Filipino Foresters, Inc., WOW Negros, and Ecoschool Movement, among others.

Poblador represented AYEJ, an organization founded in August 2017 after YSEALI Camp SEWI: Student’s Environmental Writing Initiative which aimed to strengthen the coverage of environmental stories in the local media by training student journalists in environmental writing.

“I feel very proud that there are a lot of people who are willing to be a part of our organization and believe in the mission of AYEJ,” Poblador said, “and knowing that our country is vulnerable to the climate crisis, we need more young leaders to join the cause.”

Poblador is the graphic artist of The Norsunian, official campus paper of NORSU. (Val Amiel Vestil)

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