Prepared by:

Balones, Russelle Mae

Dela Cruz, Nancy

Galicia, Jhonard

ILLAC DIAZ

ILLAC DIAZ• Illac was born to Italian-born Silvana nee

Ancellotti who runs an art house Galeria Duenila and to Ramon, an accomplished visual artist and brother of Gloria Diaz, the first Filipina Miss Universe.

• He studied High School in Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) in 1990. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Management Economics also at Ateneo.

• As a young fellow and bachelor, he was then a model, a party-goer and an actor for sometime. He was also an advertising executive for Smart Communication. But he strove for more.

To further his studies, he took a Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship

at the AsianInstitute of Management (AIM) with graduate thesis:

“Shanties to Jobs: Creating a Migrant Center in Manila.”

Then he later left to study in the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT) in Boston with Urban Planning,

Course II – Urban Studies and Planning.

In 2008, he took Masters of Political Administration,

MPA 1 in Harvard.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Pier One - an affordable, clean and safe house for seafarers. This transient housing is for seamen and prospective contract workers coming from the provinces, looking for work and waiting for their next voyage.

Central Migrante Page - a build-for-stay system where tenants will be able to stay in the compound in exchange for their labor in constructing parts of the project. The project aims to reduce the waiting time of overseas Filipino workers from seven to only three months

Peanut Revolution - help the women to manually shell off peanuts with simple pedal-powered machines

First Step Coral - an artificial coral reef system to attract fish to shallower waters.

MY SHELTER FOUNDATION

• In 2001 up to the present, he is the Executive Director and Founder of MyShelter Foundation, Inc. It is a social enterprise that looks for sustainable housing solutions for homeless and the lack of infrastructure in developing countries, like the Philippines.

• This more affordable, indigenous rather than fully manufactured construction material addressed the shortage of clinics and schools in rural Philippines. My Shelter foundation has built five clinics and twenty classrooms at one fourth the cost in 10 provinces, as well as conducted complementary seminars on preserving dwindling forest resources.

LITER OF LIGHT

• Filipino Illac Diaz began a project called Liter of Light to do two things in his home country: provide light to those who need it and recycle otherwise useless trash.

• The project uses empty one liter soft drink bottles in numerous ways, most commonly filling them with water and a little bleach and fitting these into the tin-roofs across the slums of Manila and other places. The refraction brings light into these very dark dwellings, accomplishing electricity savings and re-using tons of plastic that would otherwise go to landfills or worse.

AWARDS

• Illac is the youngest AIM alumnus to receive an Honors and Prestige Award because of Pier One. In 2004 he got a three-in-a-row award.

• He got an Everyday Hero Special Award from the Readers Digest Asia and an Entrepreneur Award from the 1st Johnny Walker Social Award.

• He was runner-up in New York’s Next Big Idea International Design Competition.

• He got the First for Social Entrepreneurship from TOYM Award in 2005.

• Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World for Social Enterprise Award Recipient 2006

• His latest citation is the “Young Global Leaders of 2008” by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva.