Meet Australia Awards Alumna Kritzia Santos Image

Meet Australia Awards Alumna Kritzia Santos

Meet Kritzia – an Australia Awards alumna and climate action champion! She and her team are equipping young Filipinos with the knowledge and leadership skills to deliver environmental initiatives in their schools and communities.


With support from the Australia Alumni Grants Scheme, Kritzia is bringing climate education to kids across Metro Manila – turning awareness into action!


Australia Awards goes beyond scholarships – it empowers alumni to create real change.

Meet Australia Awards Alumna Kritzia Santos Image

Meet Australia Awards Alumna Kritzia Santos

Meet Kritzia – an Australia Awards alumna and climate action champion! She and her team are equipping young Filipinos with the knowledge and leadership skills to deliver environmental initiatives in their schools and communities.


With support from the Australia Alumni Grants Scheme, Kritzia is bringing climate education to kids across Metro Manila – turning awareness into action!


Australia Awards goes beyond scholarships – it empowers alumni to create real change.

Filipino alumni led project to promote disability inclusion

Filipino alumni led project to promote disability inclusion

Social inclusion advocates and Australia Awards alumni Dr Rex Bernardo, Naprey Almario, Krissy Bisda, Ma Lourdes Eudela and Giselle Montero banded together to promote their shared advocacy on disability inclusion.


With support from the Australia Alumni Grants Scheme, they led the project “Equalizing Our Universal Access, Taking Down the Barriers.” This project trained educators and employers to design inclusive and accessible digital spaces and content.

Filipino alumni led project to promote disability inclusion

Filipino alumni led project to promote disability inclusion

Social inclusion advocates and Australia Awards alumni Dr Rex Bernardo, Naprey Almario, Krissy Bisda, Ma Lourdes Eudela and Giselle Montero banded together to promote their shared advocacy on disability inclusion.


With support from the Australia Alumni Grants Scheme, they led the project “Equalizing Our Universal Access, Taking Down the Barriers.” This project trained educators and employers to design inclusive and accessible digital spaces and content.

Dr. Maria Corazon De Ungria: Science in the service of the Filipino people Image

Dr. Maria Corazon De Ungria: Science in the service of the Filipino people

It was 1999. Forensic science was still largely a man’s world. But the 30-year old Filipina scientist worked tirelessly alongside her male colleagues – forensic pathologists, lawyers, judges, police officers – and proved that women can flourish whether in the crime scene or in the laboratory. Her voice, after all, provided the crucial DNA information that would solve crimes. What these men didn't know was that the young scientist had just gotten back from over a decade of study in Australia; still adjusting to a brand new world, but ever determined to serve her homeland.

Read her story

Dr. Maria Corazon De Ungria: Science in the service of the Filipino people Image

Dr. Maria Corazon De Ungria: Science in the service of the Filipino people

It was 1999. Forensic science was still largely a man’s world. But the 30-year old Filipina scientist worked tirelessly alongside her male colleagues – forensic pathologists, lawyers, judges, police officers – and proved that women can flourish whether in the crime scene or in the laboratory. Her voice, after all, provided the crucial DNA information that would solve crimes. What these men didn't know was that the young scientist had just gotten back from over a decade of study in Australia; still adjusting to a brand new world, but ever determined to serve her homeland.

Read her story