by Carolyn Ashworth | Jan 22, 2021 | Heartivist Of The Week
Eric and Sheryl Kolb lost Sheryl’s grandmother, Olive, to Alzheimer’s in 2006. Just two years later, Sheryl’s mother Trish began having trouble remembering words and recognizing familiar objects. For the next twelve years, the family went through all the joy, pain and...
by Carolyn Ashworth | Jan 15, 2021 | Heartivist Of The Week
In the midst of so much chaos and confusion that descended on America’s capitol last week, it brings us hope to know that The Pollination Project’s spirit of peace and kindness was also present on that day. In 2017, Mary Liepold and Eli McCarthy received seed funding...
by Carolyn Ashworth | Dec 24, 2020 | Heartivist Of The Week
One day several years ago, photographer and animal activist Tamara Blazquez Haik was walking home when she came across a poisoned opossum lying dead on the sidewalk. Many people might have kept walking and not given this a second thought, but Tamara couldn’t help but...
by Carolyn Ashworth | Dec 18, 2020 | Heartivist Of The Week
Dorcas Apoore grew up in Northern Ghana, in a remote village so small that it isn’t even on a map. Her mother was married at a young age and never got to finish school, a cycle that Dorcas saw repeated for a great many girls in her village. Most often, this is an...
by Carolyn Ashworth | Dec 11, 2020 | Heartivist Of The Week
When she became pregnant at 18, Maria del Mar Jaramillo felt her dreams come crashing down around her. She spent her pregnancy full of worry, wondering if the life she had envisioned for herself would still be possible. With the loving support of her husband and...
