The Haribon Foundation asked me to design a social media template for their project focused on bringing more women to forest management positions and leadership.

For the social media cards, I decided to use a nature or leaf motif that utilized leaves, flowers, and branches of plants native to the Philippines.

For Women's Month, Haribon asked for a slightly updated template that highlighted the occasion. So I illustrated a group of women for the template.

Lastly, I'd like to share the logo I had made for the project. After a few studies portraying nature and women in various ways, the team chose this logo.

The leaf is inspired by the leaf of the National Tree of the Philippines: the Narra, or Pterocarpus indicus.

Haribon's Women GO project is formally entitled "Enhancing the Role of Women in Protected Area Governance for Social Change."

It aims to increase the influence of rural women in Protected Area (PA) governance in the Southern Sierra Madre, particularly in Mt. Irid-Angelo. The mountain is actually made of two mountains that hold within them 135,257 hectares of forest. It is also home to the Dumagat-Remontado tribe, and has 17 watersheds, four of which provide water for domestic and industrial use to its neighboring municipalities.

The project seeks to empower women and highlight their role not only in ensuring family and community well-being, but also in natural resource management, which includes managing environmental risks, reducing vulnerabilities, and improving climate resiliency.

Learn more about the project at the Haribon Foundation website.