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Grantee Stories

Youth for Aarey: Fighting for the Last Green Space in Mumbai

The Aarey Forest, part of the Sanjay Ghandi National Park, is home to 15,000 indigenous peoples called Adivasis, as well as a rich array of flora and fauna. Existing for more than 500 years, the forest holds centuries of native knowledge. It is also the only open...

One Man Recycles Trash to Create Healthy Food and Feed a Town

The Mushroom Guy. That is the name the community has given to him. It might have something to do with the jacket he wears as it has a giant mushroom on the back but more than likely, it has to do with the fact that Jake Garza has done something extraordinary - he’s...

Educating Zimbabwe Youth to Become Environmentally Conscious

An increase in natural disasters, a rise in global temperatures, and extreme weather events throughout the 21st century have brought with them some troubling implications for the state of our world due to the effects of climate change. Whilst climate change has...

Art on Blast: The Little Book With a Big Message

I always know I am conversing with an artist when the word “intention” comes up often. The creation process is the unfoldment of intention, a process Rachel Werner—an artist of various mediums and arts educator & activist—knows well. In 2019, she planted a seed as...

Using 3D Video Game Technology to Help Threatened Wild Bee Species

More than 42,100 of the world's species are threatened with extinction, according to the ICUN. “My hope is that all this amazing technology humans are coming up with will ultimately help us solve the problems animals are facing in the wild.”  – Gabriel Packard,...

Kansiime Honest Nurtures the Leaders of Tomorrow with Girls to Lead Africa Program

For Kansiime Honest, her life-changing moment was when the Ugandan government passed a policy for universal education.

Corn Kid Home: A Place of Love and Dignity for Chickens

Around 2,000 chickens were slaughtered per second worldwide in 2016, World Animal Protection.  “It is inspiring and hopeful to see more and more plant-based option meals out there and people choosing them for a whole variety of reasons whether it's health, animal...

Tumbleweed Sanctuary: An Illustration of Love and Respect for All

Imagine driving along a four lane road when you suddenly come upon a dog standing in the middle of one of the lanes. Would you stop and help? When Andrea Johnson found herself in that exact situation, it wasn’t even a question as instantaneous thought gave way to...

Helping Pollinators in New Hampshire

99.9% of the western population of monarch butterflies has declined from the 1980s to 2021, IUCN. “We have to take care of all creatures, even the smallest ones. We have to take care of the world that was given to us,” Lorie Ball, New Hampshire State Representative...

The Difference One Person Can Make: Dickson Oketch and His Work with Girls in Siaya, Kenya

With such sensational stories bombarding our hearts and minds, it is easy to succumb to fear—or, worse, apathy. But at The Pollination Project, we strive to provide an antidote to apathy by uplifting the voices of those changemakers who are making a positive difference in the world—changemakers like Mr. Dickson Oketch