Cemex-Tec Award commends Filipino ingenuity on 10th anniversary
CELEBRATING its 10th anniversary this year, Cemex-Tecnologico de Monterrey Center for Sustainable Development is all set for the Cemex-Tec Award 2020, with a few changes in accordance with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Over the years, 22,500 people around the world have benefited from a total of 128 winning projects from 74 countries, including the Philippines.
“This year, we celebrate 10 years of the Cemex- Tec Award, and we are also 10 years away from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. Through this award, we continue to recognize and collaborate with agents of change who are also working toward the same goals of the 2030 Agenda,” said Martha Herrera, Corporate Social
Responsibility Director at Cemex and Director for the CemexTecnologico de Monterrey Center for Sustainable Communities.
Last year, Robert de la Serna of the Philppines, won the award for the Communitarian Entrepreneurship Category for his project called Peace Crops, whose aim is to promote agro-enterprise activities for the youth in Lanao del Sur amid the threats of war.
“People were losing their jobs, their livelihood, that’s when we thought perhaps it’s time to change the paradigm. Instead of building arms, let’s build farms,” Robert said.
The four categories are Transforming Communities for graduate and postgraduate students with proposals that involve sustainable community transformation; Social Entrepreneurs for projects that create social impact and systemic change; Collaborative Action for organizations whose social impact projects are implemented through partnerships with at least three sectors of society; and Community Entrepreneurship for communitybased organizations with sustainable projects that solve problems of their community. In the Philippines, Cemex subsidiaries Apo Cement Corporation in Cebu and Solid Cement Corporation in Rizal produce and market a broad product mix of building solutions.