This is a pilot episode of the AlterCOP 30 Philippines' miniseries where we feature the stories of humans behind the program.

When 26 million students lose school to typhoons and farmers earn a mere fraction from their produce, two young Filipinos decided they couldn't just watch anymore.

One taught themselves to build education boxes for disaster-displaced kids. The other coded a platform from YouTube tutorials to fix a broken food system with nine layers of middlemen.

They're proving you don't need a business degree or perfect solutions—just the courage to start and the willingness to learn as you go.