On April 22, in Hanoi, the Embassy of Switzerland in Vietnam held a meeting with the Adorbsies group of three Vietnamese female students who won special prizes in the "Earth Prize 2022" contest.

The Swiss Embassy in Vietnam met Team Adorbsies' who are the winners of this year's Earth Prize 2022 on April 22. Photo: Bao Quoc Te

Previously, on March 25, the Earth Foundation held the "Earth Award 2022" Ceremony, won the winners of the contest on sustainable environment for teenagers, with a total prize value of up to US $200,000.

The winner are three female students, Luong Anh Khanh Huyen (16 years old, Hanoi), Bui Tu Uyen (17 years old, Hanoi) and Tran Quynh Anh (15 years old, Ho Chi Minh City) of Team Adorbsies . They won the prestigious 'Earth Award 2022' with US $100,000 in prize money and a visit and experience in Switzerland.

The idea of ​​their project is that the team members noticed that the export of dragon fruit had plummeted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In that context, Vietnam suddenly had to deal with a huge amount of fruit backlog, with many of fruits set to waste.

Team Adorbsies is made up of pragmatic, business-oriented and highly motivated individuals in Vietnam who collaborated to realize their idea, the “Adorbsy” biodegradable sanitary pad. Photo: The Earth Prize

The three Vietnamese schoolgirls wanted create eco-friendly products based on the absorbent properties of dragon fruit skins. This is an idea that has never been seen before in the Vietnamese market, so it has seeded the group's submission of the 'Earth Award 2022' project.

Expressing her joy at winning the top prize, Huyen Luong said: “This idea gives us a lot of inspiration. The team worked for months to develop the idea and the hard work paid off. Sleepless nights, looking through dozens, dozens of research papers… And now everything has worked out!”.

Team member Quynh Anh said that this is the first big milestone in her life.

"The Earth Prize is the place to present the first ideas, but realizing and putting the model into practice is the next important step. And this victory is the driving force and strength to take this idea as far as possible," said Quynh Anh.

Each of them brought forward their own abilities and interests in their application for The Earth Prize.

Online meeting of the team. Photo: Lao Dong

Quynh Anh is a problem solver. She likes any challenge involving large-scale planning and hopes to pursue higher education in business with a special focus on social enterprises.

Huyen wants to concentrate on finance, with the hope of starting her own company in the future.

Uyen studies biology but also maintains an interest in the arts, as she is a classically trained musician. While still aspiring to a future career in computational, as she has always been curious about the intersection between computer science and biology.

These bright young women expressed humility, disclosing that they never expected to be included in the final round of the competition. “It is daunting to apply when you come from such a small country,” said Quynh Anh. But participating in The Earth Prize has rightly boosted their confidence and they stand proud that the quality of their idea speaks for itself.

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