About

Mr. Froilan G. Grate or Kuya Froi as he is commonly called, is an environmental educator and volunteer at heart.

He first joined Mother Earth Foundation as its Program Coordinator in early 2006, after which he was elected as Vice President in 2007 and President in 2009. Prior to joining MEF, he was the Program Director of the Center for Environmental Awareness and Education where he was first exposed to the transformative power of education, especially as a tool in making people act positively towards the resolution of various environmental issues.

He is also the Chairman of Add Up! Volunteers, a group he founded in 2003 with the goal of engaging the youth in active nation building. They have provided volunteer support to MEF and other environmental organizations.

Currently, aside from being President and Trustee, he is also serving MEF as an active trainer on Inner Ecology and Ecological Solid Waste Management Trainings (ESWM), and as Project Manager for MEF-Puerto Princesa Partnership on ESWM. He is also working as Consultant for the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) for the Zero Waste Alaminos Project and as Project Manager for Rotary – USAID’s Ecological Solid Waste Project – a support project for Maynilad’s Sewerage Treatment Plant Project for the San Juan River basin.

His other current engagements are the following: Project Manager and Senior Facilitator of Project Water Education for Teachers (Project WET) and Project Learning Tree, and as General Manager of GreenMinds Interactive.

An avid blogger, mountaineer and traveller, he aims to backpack across 30 countries before he turns 30. A passionate advocate against the use of plastic, he has not used a single plastic drinking straw or shopping bag in the last four years.