Miss Progress International is an International beauty pageant that aims at issues like Environment, Health, Human Rights and Cultural Integration. The idea behind establishing the pageant was to integrate social contents and target on the issues that have an international relevance. In 2010 Associazione Culturale in Progress started a pageant in Italy, dedicated to Environment, Health, Human Rights and Cultural Integration and named it as Miss Progress International.
While commencing the pageant, it was decided that the pageant will work on the format in which women around the world could be given the role of Ambassador of Progress to realize a format in agreement with each one’s culture, traditions and religion. The pageant has been held only twice, ever since its establishment, on 2010 and 2014.
Miss Progress International is different from the usual and standard beauty pageants as it concentrates on the ideas and concepts of the contestants at the fields listed below -
- Integration of cultures
- Environment
- Health
- Human Rights
The delegates have to work on the projects listed above and the same is evaluated by a panel of jury based on the project’s feasibility and contents. For each of the listed fields, a winner is selected and the idea is brought to the attention to the world. In addition to the winners for each category, an overall winner is selected and there are no runner-ups. The winners are hence awarded with the following titles - Miss Progress International, Miss Progress Health, Miss Progress Environment, Miss Progress Integration of Cultures and Miss Progress Human Rights.
The previous winners of the Miss Progress International pageant are –
2010
Miss Progress International 2010 - Julieth William Lugembe from Tanzania
Miss Progress Health 2010 - Dian Biemans from Netherlands
Miss Progress Environment 2010 - Lakindes Brown from Bahamas
Miss Progress Integration of Cultures 2010 - Carolina Palmegiani from Venezuela
Miss Progress Human Rights 2010 - Anette Maximovitz from Hungary
2014
Miss Progress International 2014 - Arantza Barba from Bolivia
Miss Progress Human Rights 2014 - Marie Darline Exumé from Haiti
Miss Progress Health 2014 - Jorreni Marcon from Brazil
Miss Progress Environment 2014 - Arantza Barba from Bolivia
Miss Progress Integration of Cultures 2014 - Esterina Rumè from Italy