Trash To Treasures
Manuel Angel Barrantes Duarte, founder of Trash to Treasures, will train members of a low-income community in Nicaragua to become micro-entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs will create and sell upcycled products, thereby building job skills, increasing household income, and contributing to environmental sustainability.
Manuel Angel Barrantes Duarte
Manuel Barrantes was born in Managua, Nicaragua, and is 21 years old. He is a senior at Harding University majoring in global economics and Management. He is at Harding with the Walton International Scholarship Program (WISP) for Central America. His goal after graduation is to implement and offer low-income communities from Managua, new opportunities to engage […]
Karina Nur Arumsari
Wetland Furniture was founded by Karina Nur Arumsari and her partner, Irfanda. The venture is about converting water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) – an invasive plant that lives in water – into valued goods. They are empowering the women in Desa Bandung, Mojokerto to have a better life. In her spare time, she enjoys going to cinemas […]
Wetland Furniture
Irfanda Odytia & Karina Nur Arumsari founded Wetland Furniture, also in Indonesia, to harvest water hyacinths and empower unemployed women to learn how to build furniture from this freely available resource. The team will provide the women with resources, training, and designs, as well as a generous profit-sharing structure. Wetland Furniture also has a distribution […]
Irfanda Odytia
Irfanda Odytia was born at Ponorogo, Indonesia on 01 May 1997. Irfanda had a very early interest in technology and entrepreneurship. He pursues his passion by studying as a science major at Sampoerna Academy Palembang, Indonesia. Irfanda began to love and appreciate nature and the environment, community and society. During his senior year of high […]
Nahom Wodajo
Nahom Zeleke is a graduate from Addis Ababa University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is co-founder of Addis Sustainable Life (ASL) – a recycling start-up company and campus-sustainability program. His project engages volunteers in creative campus waste management, markets biodegradable products and executes various campus sustainability campaigns for Addis Ababa University. Nahom […]
Abiy Goshu
Abiy is co-founder of Addis Sustainable Life – a social venture that works on campus sustainability and markets biodegradable paper products to support small local green enterprises in Addis Abeba. He also serves as Partnerships Director at the Youth Negotiation on Climate Change Convention (YNCCC). He was nominated as a youth delegate representing his country […]
Addis Sustainable Life
In 2015, Nahom and Abbiy founded Addis Sustainable Life (ASL), a campus-sustainability program and small recycling start-up that marketed biodegradable products, engaged volunteers in creative campus waste management, and executed campus sustainability campaigns for Addis Ababa University. ASL blended Ethiopian traditional skills with contemporary designs to produce aesthetic paper products available for international and online markets and also generated direct impact through a light […]
Charlene Kormondy
Charlene received a B.S. in Environmental Studies, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Central Florida in 2014. While at UCF, she conducted undergraduate research on climate change impacts on the Caribbean. As a participant in the President’s Scholars Study Abroad Program, Charlene constructed a shade house on the island of St. Kitts in which […]
Lucien Charland
Lucien grew up spending his summers in Guatemala, experiencing the negative effects of poverty and climate change first-hand. At the University of Central Florida, this exposure led him to study abroad in St. Kitts & Nevis and present and publish climate change impacts research. Also as a student, Lucien interned at the U.S. Embassy in […]
