Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin has challenged the 10 outstanding young men of 2022 to keep excelling in their respective fields and to collectively be an inspiration to others. Speaking at the awarding of the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) 2022 on Thursday, March 30, Bersamin urged the awardees to ask themselves: What's next after receiving the recognition? "Let not this award ceremony be your finish line of your many years of hard and painstaking work in your respective fields and advocacies. Our country desires you to continue individually in the fields you have been recognized today. Better still, I urge you to act as one group of inspiration and motivators for others," Bersamin said. "You subscribe to the enduring ideal of all humanity being the objects of our love and service. The world must be preserved through peace and harmony and kept safe for generations to come. Continue to be relevant. Continue to do more. Continue your advocacies and make our country a land worth living in and loving," he added. The latest TOYM awardees belong to the fields of education and academe; health and medicine; humanitarian, civil society and voluntary leadership; and in literature, culture and the arts. The Executive Secretary told the awardees to remain relevant in their fields and accept that the country needs to grow in the fields where they particularly excelled. "A properly educated and trained nation will be able to cope with the technological challenges of the future. A healthy citizenry will ensure a higher quality of life for our people. Full appreciation of culture and the arts will help resolve a looming identity crisis about who we are in the face of a relentless globalization. Voluntary leadership in the highest order will eradicate the corruption that has become the face of our political system," Bersamin said. The Palace official further dared the awardees and the countless others, who have been given the same recognition before, "to keep up the excellence you have shown". "It is encouraging for me to note that many of you do not consider financial success as the ultimate measure of achievement. Because to you it is rather the lives you have improved and positively affected that matter above all," he said. The recipients of the TOYM 2022 award are the following: 1\.  Dr\. Paul Gideon Lasco: a physician and expert in medical anthropology\, for Education and the Academe; 2\.  Manix Abrera: creator of Kikomachine Komix\, for Literature\, Culture and the Arts; 3\.  Dr\. Beverly Lorraine Ho: Department of Health \(DOH\) Assistant Secretary and Director of Public Health Services Team \(PHST\)\, for Health and Medicine; 4\.  Dr\. Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto: one of the world’s pioneers in the new field of planetary health\, for Health and Medicine; 5\.  Dr\. Ronnie Baticulon: a pediatric neurosurgeon\, for Health and Medicine; 6\.  Rico Ancog: an environmental educator\, for Education and the Academe; 7\.  Victor Mari Baguilat Jr\.: founder of the social enterprise Kandama\, for Literature\, Culture and the Arts; 8\.  Kristian Cordero: a Bicolano writer and filmmaker\, for Literature\, Culture and the Arts; 9\.  Shawntel Nicole Nieto: founder of One Cainta Program\, for Humanitarian\, Civil Society or Voluntary Leadership; 10\.  Joanne Ascencion Valdez: a city councilor of Candon\, Ilocos Sur\, for Humanitarian\, Civil Society or Voluntary Leadership The TOYM award is an annual recognition to Filipinos aged between 18 and 40 years old who have made significant contributions to their field or community. Established in October 1959, the award is organized by the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Philippines with the support of the TOYM Foundation, Inc., as well as other partners and stakeholders.