Here´s what I believe:
I looked up the definition of the word progress and Google shows that progress is to move forward, to dream and change.
Everybody in this room knows that we all have the opportunity to change things; My dream of change began while being a missionary in rural communities. This experience made me understand the issue of the lack of natural resources when people needed to walk huge distances to get water or lumber.
So a few years back, I thought on doing something to reduce climate change and create a positive impact. I was fortunate enough to meet my partner who actually came up with the idea and here´s what happened:
We put together the following ingredients to start our venture:
1. A strong will to educate about recycling with a twist of passion and humility
2. A large involvement of people from children in schools to corporate and government employees.
3. And a chunk of excitement when transforming waste into raw materials and forgetting about landfills.
All this to save natural resources and to increase recycling rates in Latin America, which are close to 0%.
In so little time we´ve already educated more than 5,000 people and saved and huge amount of resources but I believe we can still do so much more.
So adding to Google, progress of me is to achieve, through the help of millions of people, positive change so we can leave behind a better world for future generations.
