At age 16, Carmina Mancenon is a social entrepreneur. She is excitedly preparing to launch a project this summer in the hope of raising awareness of the poverty in Southeast Asia.
"It is a youth-led micro-finance organization to combat poverty through fashion," said Mancenon, a Philippine national living in Tokyo who attends K. International School in Koto Ward.
The project, Stitch Tomorrow, aims to support teens in the Philippines and Indonesia who live in poverty to create their own fashion lines using secondhand materials.