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Diana Vicezar
Paraguayan entrepreneur (born 2001) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Diana Monserrat Vicezar Torres (born 2001) is a Paraguayan community activist and entrepreneur. She founded an animal welfare organization as a teenager, before founding an online platform and a podcast. In 2020, she was added to the Diana Award Roll of Honour for her work.
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In 2017, aged 16, Vicezar established Mymba Rayhu, a community-based organisation in Paraguay focusing on sustainability and animal welfare.[1][2] Paraguay has a large issue with feral or abandoned dogs, as well as with plastic pollution. Vicezar established Mymba Rayhu to build shelter for these free-ranging dogs using wholly recycled materials, especially plastics.[2] In 2018, she received the Asunción Youth Excellence Award.[3] By 2019, the organisation had three international chapters;[1] in the same year Vicezar was the recipient of a Global Teen Leader Award for the project.[4] In 2020 she was added to the Diana Award Roll of Honour for her volunteer work.[5]
While a student at Pitzer College, Vicezar established Mapis, an online career platform.[6][7] The platform aimed to support international students by helping them to access career opportunities in the United States.[8] Its beta version launched in 2022.[6][9] The same year she became the first Paraguayan to work as a product design intern at Meta.[7][10] In 2023, whilst studying at University College Cork (Ireland), Vicezar launched a podcast, 'La Sociedad', the first podcast to record and share the experiences of Hispanic and Latin-American students in Ireland.[11]
In 2021, she represented Paraguay at the #Youth4Climate conference.[12] In 2023, she was a recipient of an Outstanding Young People of Paraguay Award from the Junior Chamber International of Asunción.[13]
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Vicezar is originally from Asunción.[7] She has credited much of her success abroad due to an early opportunity to study English.[14]
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