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Miss Progress international

Formation	2010
Type	Beauty Pageant
Headquarters	Carosino
Location	Italy
Official language	English/Italian/Spanish
President	Giuseppina Nobile
Website	https://missprogressinternational.com

Miss Progress International is an international beauty pageant that stands for promoting projects about Health, Human Rights and Environment. The format was created in Italy in 2010.

The main purpose of the event is the realization of the winning project by executing, in collaboration with the winner, a fundrising aimed to cover the costs.

The current Miss Progress International title holder is Francesca Speranza, from Italy, thanks to her environmental project, self-financed through the sale of jams produced in a building confiscated from the camorra in Caserta, her city, by planting fruit trees and realizing the concept of urban agriculture. She was crowned on September 17, 2022 in the Messapia Hotel & Resort of Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy.

Organization

The organization is managed by Associazione Culturale In Progress of Carosino (Italy), which also holds the copyrights of the format. Each National Director (the licensees) choose, through regional and national heats, the contestants who will take on the role of their national Ambassador of Progress.

History

The first edition of Miss Progress International was held from September 19th to 26th, 2010 in Puglia, Italy, with the support of the European Union, and the moral patronage of the Italian Ministry of Tourism, the Regione Puglia , and the municipalities of Taranto and Ostuni.

Due to serious problems of health faced by one of the founders of the Associazione Culturale In Progress, the event was suspended until 2014 when the second edition took place from May 9 to 18, again in Puglia, and obtained, among the others, the formal appreciation of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano.

All of the eight editions of Miss Progress International took place in Puglia, the region defined by the National Geographic as one of the twenty most beautiful tourist destination in the world. The Covid-19 pandemic obliged the organizers to suspend the event and postpone the eighth edition from 2020 to 2022.

Titleholders

There is one winner for each theme and the contestant who obtains the higher overall score wins the title. Since the second edition, the winner of the title of Miss Progress Cultural Integration is elected by the contestant themselves who vote for the one among them who best represents the real meaning of integration: peaceful coexistence, friendliness and congeniality.

Winners

Year	Country	Miss Progress International	Project theme	Location
2022	Italy	Francesca Speranza	Environment	Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
2019	Colombia	Vanesa Giraldo Lopez	Environment	Carosino, Italy
2018	Colombia	Eyra Luz Baquero Mola	Human Rights	Leporano, Italy
2017	Philippines	Jedaver Pancho Opingo	Human Rights	Carosino, Italy
2016	Benelux	Natascha Fischer	Human Rights	Francavilla Fontana, Italy
2015	Paraguay	Liz Arévalos	Health	Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
2014	Bolivia	Arantza Barba	Environment	Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
2010	Tanzania	Julieth William Lugembe	Human Rights	Taranto, Italy

Top 3, best project for each theme

Year	Miss Progress Health	Miss Progress Environment	Miss Progress Human Rights
2022	Colombia Andrea Pineda	Italy Francesca Speranza	Philippines Beatriz Awatin
2019	Philippines Sarah M. Joson	Colombia Vanesa Giraldo Lopez	Nigeria Kome Adheke
2018	United Kingdom Hannah Higgins	Philippines Sarah Bona	Colombia Eyra Luz Baquero Mola
2017	Peru Natalia Carmen Guerrero	Italy Claudia Baroni	Philippines Jedaver Pancho Opingo
2016	United Kingdom Bethany Cammack	Costa Rica Marianella Chavez Serrano	Benelux Natascha Fischer
2015	Paraguay Liz Arévalos	Netherlands Kelly Van den Dungen	U.S.A. Susanna Schrabak
2014	Brazil Jorreni Marcon	Bolivia Arantza Barba	Haiti Marie Darline Exume
2010	Netherlands Dian Biemans	Bahamas Kendis Brown	Tanzania Julieth William Lugembe

Other awards

Year	Miss Progress Cultural Integration	Best National Costume	Miss Progress Elegance	Miss Progress Internet
2022	Puerto Rico Gabriela Monserrate	Colombia Andrea Pineda	Peru Gisela Neyra	Philippines Beatriz Awatin
2019	U.S.A. Gabriella Ochoa	Ethiopia Kisanet Molla	France Adélaide De Boisvilliers	Honduras Heather Rodriduez
2018	Guatemala Natali Guerrero	Mexico Brenda Vélasquez Haro	Japan Yurika Watanabe	Kenya Audrey Awor
2017	Ukraine Daria Feshchenkova	Paraguay Ianaiara Gonzalez Nieradka	Brazil Constanza De Mattheu	United Kingdom Naomi Train
2016	Sri Lanka Yameesha Rasadi	Brazil Rafaela Torres	Israel Tal Ben Haim	Canada Carmelle Martinez
2015	Mexico Neidy Robles	Pakistan Laila Khan Niazi	Mexico Neidy Robles	Brazil Daiane Rosa
2014	Italy Esterina Rumè	Puerto Rico Kristina Velez Toledo	not assigned	Sweden Dorota Bartlewska
2010	Venezuela Carolina Palmegiani	Bahamas Kendis Brown	not assigned	not assigned

External links

• Miss Progress International official website (ENG/ESP/ITA)
• Miss Progress International official blog (ENG/ESP/ITA)

Further reading

• "Miss Progress International 2017". viaggiareinpuglia.it. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
• "A Matera una tappa di Miss Progress International 2016". SassiLive.it. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
• "Miss Progress nel Salento: a Leuca venti ragazze". corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
• "Miss Progress International 2015: sul palco Justine Mattera e Angelo Mellone". unotv.com. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
• "Miss Progress International - Donne per il progresso Ad Alberobello venti Miss provenienti dai cinque continenti del pianeta". Comune di Alberobello. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
• "Miss Progress Bahamas wins Best Costume and makes it to top 4". BahamasLocal.com. Retrieved 2010-10-03.asLocal.com|accessdate=2010-10-03}}