Illac Diaz, Filipino social entrepreneur and founder of Liter of Light, was one of the speakers in “Light Up The Future” which achieved the Guinness World Records for the largest lecture on environmental sustainability in Abu Dhabi last January 10, 2018.
Diaz’ Liter of Light won the seventh edition of the Zayed Future Energy Prize in the Non-Profit Organization (NPO/NGO) category in 2015, and is the only Filipino organization to have won this prestigious prize.
The world record event called on thousands of students and young volunteers to participate in an environmental sustainability lesson, building simple, repairable solar lights rendered into an art installation at the end of the day.
The model-actor-turned-social-entrepreneur gave a 30-minute lecture in the said event, which was spearheaded by The Zayed Future Energy Prize and was attended by nearly 300 students from across the UAE.
Samour Khallouf, an official adjudicator for Guinness World Record, confirmed that the said event has set the world record for “largest environmental sustainability lesson”.
“No such records were set previously in the world wherein hundreds of students attended a large interactive lesson on environmental sustainability. This is the first time,” Samer Khallouf said as reported by Gulf News.
The main objective of the lecture was to show young people can help in conserving energy for a more sustainable energy in the future.
Khalid Al Ameri, an internet personality, posted a video on his Facebook page regarding the said event.
He narrated how the UAE started from being a vast desert to becoming one of the leading and most successful countries in the world.
He thanked the vision of UAE’s founder, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, in building a sustainable environment for the future.
“One of the amazing things about living in the UAE is the legacy that has been set by the founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and what he strived for was to create an environment that was sustainable that could go forward for the future,” he said.
“I mean think about it, this was just one big desert and now it is this beautiful garden if greenery everywhere you go, and that was the vision of one man,” Al Ameri added.
