Olga Álava

Olga Álava

Olga Mercedes Álava Vargas is an Ecuadorian model from Guayaquil, social and way of life ambitious person, tree hugger, and a universal marvel expo titleholder. She turned into the first delegate from Ecuador to win the Miss Earth exhibition.
Biography

Álava, conceived on February 14, 1988, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, is the little girl of Ramón Álava and Teresa Vargas. She has three brothers and is the most established of four children. Her side interests incorporate photography and modeling. During her adolescence years she every now and again went by the territory of Manabi and invested quite a bit of her time on its beaches.

She has a Bachelor's degree in International Business and moved on from the Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo. She talks Spanish, English, and Mandarin Chinese; and concentrated on the French dialect at the Alliance Française. Her enthusiasm for social trade has driven her to live in other countries. She lived in China for one year, where she considered the Chinese dialect in Shanghai for seven months and helped her dad in the import and quality control of their business. She likewise burned through seven months in Colorado, United States where she had an advertising entry level position in a restaurant.
Pageantry

Álava's attack into magnificence exhibitions is no mishap. In October 2008, she contended and won in the Reina de Guayaquil event and performed different social works. She partook in Charity Catwalk alongside other glamorous ladies that raised $4,000 for families with AIDS to profit the Fundación Nuestra Belleza. likewise, demonstrating has additionally been a piece of her life since joining the Agencia Chantal Fontaine. She contended in Ecuador's Super Model of the World rivalry in 2006 and won second place.

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Miss Ecuador 2011

In March 2011, she contended as the delegate of Guayas in Miss Ecuador 2011, and turned into the inevitable third runner up. As a major aspect of her obligation, she worked with the Fundación Bellezas por la Vida (Foundation Beauties forever), which supports moms tainted with HIV, and worked with undertakings for the community.

Miss Earth Ecuador 2011

Álava was picked and delegated Miss Earth Ecuador 2011 on July 28, 2011 at the Unipark sorted out by José Hidalgo of Diosas Escuela de Mises, the establishment holder of Miss Earth Ecuador. She wore a crown made by Catalina Salcedo made in silver with rhinestones and has a bloom plan and pearl nacre esteemed at roughly $ 10,000. To dissipate the bits of gossip about difference of the other association, Miss Ecuador Organization, for her support in the Miss Earth 2011, Alava elucidated that the chiefs of the challenge and Gama TV, authority channel of the national function, bolster her representation in the Miss Earth 2011 pageant.

Reina Hispanoamericana 2011

As a component of her arrangement in the Miss Earth 2011 event, Álava set out to Bolivia in October 2011 to speak to Ecuador in the twenty-first version of the Reina Hispanoamericana. She inevitably put fourth (second runner-up) at the finish of the Reina Hispanoamericana 2011 pageant.
Miss Earth 2011

Álava won and was delegated Miss Earth 2011 by Miss Earth 2010 Nicole Faria on December 3, 2011 at the University of the Philippines Theater in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

She introduced at the event a natural undertaking to secure mangroves in Ecuador and has additionally turned into a representative for the insurance of the regular store of Yasuní. During the affair, she told the jury that "instruction is the best answer for the earth on the grounds that youngsters are the ones that save the earth for future eras", because of the last question. She will rule throughout the following twelve months, in the wake of winning the event that partook by 84 nations in which the representatives of Latin America represented three of the main four.

Álava's accomplishment was a change from Ecuador's situation in 2010 where Jennifer Pazmiño put second in Miss Earth 2010 which was held in Vietnam. She turns into a representative for the Miss Earth Foundation and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

Media and natural activism

In the wake of winning Miss Earth 2011 in the Philippines, Álava visited a few Asian urban areas before landing in Ecuador. She made a trip to Beijing in the most recent week of December 2011 and met with the Ecuadorian envoy in China, upon the government office's welcome. She moved ahead to Shanghai where she already contemplated Mandarin for seven months in 2009 and labored for four months in 2010.

On December 28, 2011, Álava came back to Ecuador and was met at the air terminal by her relatives and companions, including Miss Earth Ecuador national chief José Hidalgo. A question and answer session for her triumph in Miss Earth was held at the City Hall of the Municipality of Guayaquil. She was respected by the chairman for her execution in the Miss Earth event and for highlighting the name of Guayaquil around the world. After the tribute, she halted the activity along the Malecon Simon Bolivar then on board a Chevrolet Impala sixties, she was paraded at the primary downtown streets.

She consented to an arrangement to be the face and representative for the battle Manos Juntas por el Estero Salado (Hands Together for the Estero Salado) that intends to teach general society about the significance of diminishing contamination in Guayaquil estuary. The undertaking, attempted by the Centro Internacional de Investigaciones del Fenómeno del Niño (International Research Center of El Niño) and the United States Agency for International Development is a piece of her natural crusade as Miss Earth. She likewise joined the gathering of stores for the Yasuní rainforest and natural life and dispatched a battle for the conservation of the Galápagos Islands. In January 2012, Álava met with the Ministry of Environment in Ecuador and talked about issues identified with ecological preservation. She then effectively partook in the tree planting of 7,500 youthful Pijio trees in the waterfront area of Ecuador that is in threat because of the forestal flames together with the Ecuadorian Army and Arnoldo Alencastro, the individual who started the crusade to spare the Pijio Tree.

Álava was an uncommon visitor in the Dulce Mar Fashion Show held at the C.C. City Mall in Guayaquil on February 2, 2012 which emphasized extras, swimwear, and clothing from Aéropostale, Megamaxi, Traviesa, and Fuera de Serie. In the determination of the Queen of Santa Cruz Island in Galapagos, she served as a member of the jury then headed out to Quito for a photograph shoot.

She featured in the Cosas Magazine (Ecuador) in March 2012 in which she depicted the idea, "Los 17 de las Artes" as a tribute to expressions of the human experience motivated by the relationship between the number 17 particularly the 17 plays of William Shakespeare written in the seventeenth century, the 17 Beethoven Quartets, and the 17 sorts of tiles that cover the Alhambra royal residence. She wore the accumulations of style creator Adolfo Domínguez. She was an exceptional visitor in the Miss Ecuador 2012 event held at Puerto Lucía Yacht Club, La Libertad, Santa Elena, Ecuador on March 16, 2012.

From March 17–22, 2012, Álava set out to the United States as unique visitor for the workplace of the Consulate of Ecuador. She then sashayed on the runway in the Miami International Fashion Week on March 21, 2012 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. She wore a swimwear composed via Carmen Larrea for the remarkable Ecuadorian brand, Pais del Sol. She opened the swimwear parade with the gathering of Ecuadorian brand "Nation of the Sun", which is called "Sacrosanct Ground Yasuní" and whose returns went go to profit the Yasuní-ITT Initiative. She additionally went to a question and answer session with Ivonne Baki, a contender for Director General of UNESCO. She then came back to Ecuador on March 23, 2012 to take part in a gathering pledges occasion for the casualties of flood. She made a trip from March 26 to April 3, 2012 to Réunion Island in Africa and went to diverse ecological exercises and as leader of the board of judges in the Miss Earth Réunion Island pageant, which won by Aisha Valy.

She had a unique appearance in musical philanthropy show called, Voces Solidarias (Voices of Solidarity) on April 13, 2012 held in the city of Guayaquil that was sorted out by the People's Volunteer Network of Teachers to raise reserves for the individuals influenced by the surge in diverse territories of Ecuador. During the 2012 Earth Day festival, Álava imparted ecotips on the best way to reuse utilized paper sheets, utilization of vitality sparing globules, regular light, and rechargeable batteries. She then graced the occasion "Jornada Ecológica por Nuestra Tierra" to remember Earth Day in Ecuador on April 22, 2012 which likewise went to by Ecuador's Environment Minister, Marcela Aguinaga. She likewise took an interest in the Minga of Solid Waste Collection on the banks of the Estero Salado.

Álava strolled the slope on May 11 as visitor of honor at the Lisa Quirola Fashion Show then paid a social visit to observe Mother's Day at a nearby clinic in Ecuador. She went on May 16, 2012 to New York City as uncommon visitor for the social celebration, Ecuafest.

At a nearby school in the Ecuador, she went by and imparted ecological tips to kids as a major aspect of her "I Love My Planet School Tour" on June 1, 2012.

From June to July 2012, Álava had a visit with the Miss Earth Foundation. She went to Taiwan where she got reverence, went to the opening of an electric auto get together plant, and joined the International Committee of the Red Cross in its social activity battles and different tasks in Taiwan. She moved ahead to Guam to beauty the Miss Earth Guam expo which was hung on June 18, 2012 at the Sheraton Laguna Guam Resort in Tamuning. She delegated not one, however two champs: Miss Earth Guam 2012 and Miss Earth Guam 2013 so the last would have of an opportunity time to prepare for the universal Miss Earth pageant. She then went to Puerto Princesa, Philippines to visit the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature, where she took an interest in a few exercises for the ecosystem. She then graced the Cagueban Festival on June 30, 2012 which was reminiscent of the Earth Hour and drove the tree planting occasion at the Irawan's mountains and watershed that partook by around 60,000 individuals from Puerto Princesa and adjacent regions where more than 100,000 tree saplings were added to the more 2 million experienced and quickly developing trees that have been planted subsequent to the celebration started in 1991. Aside from the tree-planting exercises, there were likewise visits to eco-camping areas, amusements and challenges, and exhibitions by ecological artists. She additionally went by Qatar and Thailand, where she held an assortment of social and natural issues as a component of the Miss Earth Foundation. She likewise set out to New York, Miami, and Paris, urban communities that has driven and advanced ecological battles and philanthropies. She came back to Ecuador on July 20, 2012.

Notwithstanding various treks around Ecuador, so far amid her rule, Álava had made a trip to the Philippines, China, France, United States, Taiwan, Guam, Qatar, Thailand, Réunion Island in Africa, india and Sri lanka.
After Miss Earth Reign

Miss Earth 2011 Olga Álava is picked by one of Ecuador's significant TV system, ECUAVISA, to be the new moderator on the showbiz fragment "Gente". She will be supplanting Maria Teresa Guerrero in the shows

Miss Earth 2011

Olga Alava was in Bangalore, India second week of March 2013 for a philanthropy occasion for youngsters and moms with HIV. She additionally head out in Sri Lanka to spend an entire month for another philanthropy occasion for individuals with malignancy and she will be one of the judges of the Miss Earth Sri Lanka 2013 pageant.

She likewise turned into a Goodwill Ambassador for Red Ribbon Revolution. An Initiative to Eradicate Stigma &Discrimination among Children and Youth Living with HIV/AIDS through Sports as a medium of transformation.