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main components that can be found in every kitchen – salt and water.
Mijeno talks about her willingness to help people especially those in rural
marginalized areas who lack resources. She told Asian Scientist she is
motivated to develop technologies in line with her advocacy for the preservation
of the beauty of this planet.
Mijeno’s SALt got off the ground through the help of IdeaSpace Foundation’s
technopreneurship competition where the lamp was picked as one of the ten
winning start-ups for early funding.
Since then the SALt project has been recognized internationally. Through her
invention, the Philippines won the People’s Choice Award at World Startup
Competition at the Startup Nations Summit 2014 held in Seoul Korea. SALt was
also recognized at the ASEAN Corporate Sustainability Summit and Awards
2015. SALt is also in the Top 100 startups to be presented at the upcoming
Echelon Asia Summit 2015 in June.
But despite these achievements, Mijeno says she still wants to achieve more for
this social enterprise. According to Mijeno, “I continuously work to achieve a
scaled-up version of the innovation that we are developing so that it can power-
up an entire village in remote islands across the Philippines using ocean water.”
SALt has announced its partnering with EMSCAI manufacturers and seeking aid
from the Department of Science and Technology to provide power to coastal
barangays using ocean water. The SALt vision is for small-scale power plants
using seas water as electrolyte.