During the Design for Change event, we got to meet Diana Rose Mucho is a Grade 8 student studying in the Philippines. As a student, Diana had observed several challenges in her community and environment. This led her and her teammates to design a floating emergency kit to be used by flood victims.
Design for Change event, with the whole ambassadors team and Diana Rose Mucho – In Rome during the Children Global Summit – Photo Credit: Design For Change Ambassador Diana Rose Mucho
Two of the issues that jumped to Diana Rose Mucho’s eyes and her classmates were (1) the lack of environmental awareness and (2) lack of disaster awareness in their communities.
To help solve the problem, Diana and her classmates conceptualized an innovative way to bring emergency kits accessible to homes while promoting recycling and disaster awareness. That’s how they literally invented the “floating emergency kit”.
Subsequently, they successfully distributed the kits to families living within areas at risk of flooding.
DESIGN for CHANGE is the largest global movement driven by children who believe that ‘every child can’ Design for Change reaches 35 countries, over 300,000 schools and 25 million children with a belief that ‘I CAN’.
The Design for Change Challenge asks students to do four very simple things :
Feel | Imagine | Do | Share
Children are dreaming up brilliant ideas all over the world, from challenging age-old superstitions in rural communities, to earning their own money to finance school computers, to solving the problem of heavy school bags, etc.
Children are proving that they have what it takes to be able to ‘design’ a future that they imagine and feel strongly about.
The Design for Change community believes that to see the change one needs to ‘Be the Change’.
We encourage teachers and parents to celebrate the fact that change is possible and that they can lead this movement towards change!
