Miss Earth SA crowns their Eco Warriors
The programme is celebrating 16 years of Environmental Advocacy, Community Service and another generation of Green Leaders.
Last month, Miss Earth South Africa announced the winners of the 2019 programme which focuses on the development of young women in South Africa as environmental ambassadors or warriors.
The programme is celebrating 16 years of Environmental Advocacy, Community Service and another generation of Green Leaders.
22-year-old Lungo Katete was crowned Miss Earth South Africa, followed by her three ambassadors; Loreal Magro, Moratwe Masima and Victoria Soutar. Magro resides time to time in Bosmont and has been working in the community for the last few months. We have covered her clean-up campaigns in Newclare and then her tree planting at three schools namely at Everest primary, Newclare primary and Laerskool General De La Rey to promote Green Education.
Magro was announced as the 2019 first runner-up of Miss Earth SA and is currently busy with her PhD in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. She tutors and lectures part-time in the field of Clinical Sociology and Population, Health & the Environment.
We asked Magro how the journey has been throughout the programme, she said: “My journey has been life-changing and rewarding. The Miss Earth South Africa programme has allowed me to do and give more. I’m excited about what my title will enable me to do in the next year.
“I’m aware of the importance of this platform and the responsibility that rests on my shoulders, and I hope to be a good ambassador. I’m grateful for all the support that I’ve received throughout my journey and to all the people who have been a part of it with me.”
The primary objective of Miss Earth SA is to create awareness, and more importantly – to educate on the issue of waste management and the catastrophic effects of a lack of waste-consciousness for our country and the globe, with a core focus on taking the issue of waste to the individual and connecting South Africans to their own waste generation and footprint.
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