(L-R) Rene “Tatay Ete” Vendiola, Ramon Aboitiz Awardee for Exemplary Individual, and Manuel Margate who serve as client service department manager of Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF) that was declared Eduardo Aboitiz Awardee for Outstanding Institution, raised the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. Triennial Awards trophies during the award ceremony last March 22 at Marco Polo Plaza Cebu. Preserving the environment does not need a high educational attainment but it requires a high degree of passion and love for nature. These characteristics are manifested by self-made environmentalist, Rene “Tatay Ete” Vendiola, who is a high school dropout and former kaingin farmer but managed to set up a Liptong woodland that preserves local fauna and species of plants and native trees. For his effort in biodiversity conservation and forestation in Bacong, Negros Oriental, Vendiola was awarded with the Ramon Aboitiz Award for Exemplary Individual during the 5th Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RA
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