Usually, the criteria that we are using in choosing the hottest hunks and hottest beauties every month is visibility. Factors include in visibility are movies, pictorials, number of commercials done, number of television appearances, number of publicities on magazines and newpapers. If he or she is very visible on these factors, then he/she's hot, as simple as that. This month of December, we will step beyond the criteria, above the visibility factor. Our hunk of the month is someone who brought honor to the country by helping his fellow Filipinos. After all, what is essential is invisible to the naked eye. But he's good-looking, too! Good looking both on the outside and on the inside. Our Hunk of the Month for December is none other than...

 Mr. Illac Diaz

Illac Diaz has brought honor to our country by being named one of the 10 Most Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) by the Jaycees International. Like what i posted last week, Illac is one of the two Filipinos who were chosen and he’s the first social entrepreneur at that.

As reported from the Philippine Star:

Earlier this year, Diaz headed the team that topped the $100K Entrepreneurship Competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston for the project CentroMigrante, a self-help business model that provides clean, safe and affordable urban housing for the thousands of Filipinos who come to Manila to look for jobs as seamen.

His team also won the first and second prizes of the MIT’s IDEAS Competition, which seeks out creative ideas that make a positive impact on the world. The team took the grand prize with their First Step Coral project, which uses a turbine powered by sea currents to energize a wire frame on which corals grow four times faster than normal. They took the silver prize with their replicable, low-cost cement peanut sheller.

Diaz set up the 40-room Pier One Seafarer’s Dormitory in Intramuros in 2000 to meet the need for temporary housing for seaman applicants. Pier One has been operating successfully and today has three branches with over 1,500 beds. He also founded the MyShelter Foundation, which builds low-cost classrooms using the Earthbag Construction System.

Diaz completed this year a research fellowship in the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies at the MIT. He holds a Master’s in Entrepreneurship degree from the Asian Institute of Management. He was on the national track and field team to the Asian Youth Games and Asian Games from 1988 to 1995, and was the national decathlon champion from 1991 to 1993.