“Hi, everybody! My name is Salma Macias, I’m 23 years old and a student of marine biology. 

I want to congratulate the POP Family for its amazing work in the development of the festival. I have attended many sessions since the first day and have the honor to participate as a panelist and moderator in a couple of them.

From the welcome session, I have felt really inspired by all the fantastic projects around the world, the speeches of young leaders, and the voices of adults with many years of experience.

It doesn’t matter where are you from, in the end, you connect with all the people and learn that is possible to start a green/blue change to protect our planet, even from your house and in the pandemic.

As the present and young people we are, it’s time to take advocacy and actions to bring solutions for the environmental problems.

Thank you for all these great opportunities that you bring to us, the youth. We lost face-to-face contact but is possible to feel the warmth and hope that you have in us.”