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MISS EARTH PUERTO RICO
VICTORIA AROCHO
DESCRIBE YOUR CHILDHOOD/GROWING YEARS
During my childhood, I was always surrounded by adults, since I didn’t have siblings and I believe that this made me mature at an early age. After my parent’s divorce, I moved to Caguas, Puerto Rico with my mother and there I started in the field of sports, doing Volleyball, Cheerleading, Tennis and Dancing. My mother put me into Modeling Classes and there was the moment I said to myself that I want to put this into a career.
WHAT IS YOUR MEMORABLE MOMENT?
Winning the Miss Earth Puerto Rico 2023 was the most memorable moment. It’s a. reminder that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it, I made the decision to participate without knowing anything about beauty pageants and over time I learned. I had the moral support of my mother and family, but I really wanted to do it alone, I wanted when I accomplished it, to say wow… I did it. We must all understand that we have our capabilities and that we have the tools to have the solutions, we just must go and find it, so we put it to the test for our Mother Earth.
ANY SPECIAL STORIES OR FACTS ABOUT YOUR FAMILY?
My family is a very responsible, disciplined and hard-working one. They have always taught me to work for what I want in my life and to never give up. With my family I never lacked anything, but they always taught me to look and find the things I want, it’s not always easy to get but you can do it.
WHAT IS THE MOST UNUSUAL THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE?
Doing cheerleading was the unusual thing I’ve done because nobody in my family ever did it and neither did my friends, except the colleagues I met there in the team. I wanted to try something different that would take me out of my comfort zone.
WHAT TIPS CAN YOU SHARE TO PROMOTE ECOTOURISM & CLIMATE CHANGE?
I have a campaign “Green Energy” that we share Environmental Tips to all my followers on social media because this is a great platform to provide knowledge and information so that people can be educated and more aware of all the problems that exists in our Earth. And at the same time, they can share these tips with the people they know. By doing this we are raising awareness to be able to unite as citizens and taking action now.
WHAT MAKES YOU PROUD OF YOUR COUNTRY?
In addition to being resilient people, we are a country that is taking action on our environmental causes. We are making progress with environmental non-profit organizations that seek to promote environmental care by creating different activities such as cleaning our coast, recycling activities, planting native trees. Organizations are seen taking action on reforestation, already due to the deforestation caused by Hurricane Maria. And for people to join us and help us to make a Greener Puerto Rico.
WHAT IS YOUR ADVOCACY?
Inspiration is part of the transformation. That’s why my advocacy aims to inspire and transform. Let’s be a link of information and education to be able to connect with each other so that the impact is even greater through awareness and union.