Did you know that the Philippines’ coconut geotextile ( a.k.a. coconet) for soil erosion control has been chosen as one of the 12 finalists in Newsweek and BBC’s (British Broadcasting Corporation) World’s World Challenge?

The World Challenge is basically a competition/search designed at identifying groups or individuals all over the world whose projects have contributed great impact at grass roots level.

A documentary about Philippine Coconut geotextile or coconet industry will be shown on the BBC World cable channel on September 24 around 8:30 GMT and will also be featured in the August 29 special issue of Newsweek.

“The World Challenge” already offers a tremendous exposure and publicity to our flourishing Philippine coconut geotextile industry and to our Philippine coconut fiber exporters. But it would be great liberation for our country, which has been getting very bad publicity nowadays, to win this prestigious competition.

This may just be a little help that we can do for our country, the Philippines. It will only take a minute…open the site and click on picture of Philippine coconet to vote. To vote, please open BBC’s The World Challengeand click the picture of Philippine coconet.

Please help us campaign for more voters by forwarding this message to your
co-worker, friends and relatives.

Thanks

Teresa H. Mella
Associate Project Analyst
Asian Development Bank
www.adb.org