FPOP National Youth Representative Mel Rose L. Dingal is IPPF’s Most Outstanding Youth Representative for 2009. This was announced during the recently concluded IPPF-ESEAOR Regional Council Meeting held in Singapore on July 21-25, 2009. The award is given to a youth leader with outstanding contribution to IPPF’s leadership and advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people. It will be presented in an awarding ceremony to be held in London this coming November.
Dingal was chosen by IPPF’s Governing Council from a group of more than 800 nominees from all regions of IPPF.