by Liza Di Georgina | Feb 23, 2024 | Heartivist Of The Week
In the USA, 17 million homes experienced food insecurity in 2022, USDA. “Food insecurity can look like anyone. We don’t always know who doesn’t have enough to eat. It could be your next-door neighbor.” Eloísa Trinidad, Executive Director of Chilis on...
by Liza Di Georgina | Feb 16, 2024 | Heartivist Of The Week
Tens of thousands of pangolins are trafficked and killed every year, National Geographic. “It gives me hope when I see that other humans are gradually realizing that animals have feelings and every little effort counts. You don’t need billions to change the world,...
by Liza Di Georgina | Feb 9, 2024 | Heartivist Of The Week
Illegal wildlife trade produces from 7 to 23 billion dollars worldwide every year, World Wildlife Trade Report. “Animals are a topic that society doesn’t give a second thought about, and my mission is to change that,” Brittany Vanderstine, Founder of Wild...
by Liza Di Georgina | Feb 2, 2024 | Heartivist Of The Week
500 million women around the world don’t have menstrual products or facilities for menstrual hygiene, The World Bank. “As a global community, we must actively work towards ensuring that all adolescents, regardless of background, gender, location, or...
by Liza Di Georgina | Jan 26, 2024 | Heartivist Of The Week
250,000 people are expected to die every year around the world, between 2030 and 2050, due to climate change, World Health Organization. “I hope that everyone understands the importance of being educated on climate change issues, and I hope that they go out and...
by Liza Di Georgina | Jan 19, 2024 | Heartivist Of The Week
In Sri Lanka, the Red Slender Loris has lost 80% of its population in the last 200 years and they continue to decline, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. “I am worried about putting people or animals in a box because everything is meant to be the way they are...
by Liza Di Georgina | Jan 12, 2024 | Heartivist Of The Week
36% of Americans 16 and over have below basic or basic health literacy, 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. “We all have within us the capacity to share our knowledge and skills with somebody else and build somebody up from there,” Bridget Saffold, Founder of...
by Liza Di Georgina | Jan 5, 2024 | Heartivist Of The Week
1 in 3 people is monetarily poor in Kenya, Country Office Annual Report 2022 Kenya by UNICEF. “I am hopeful that we will make the community better than how we found it”, David Mulo, Founder of Green Kenya. Achieving success in life is not an easy task. It is not only...
by Liza Di Georgina | Dec 22, 2023 | Heartivist Of The Week
The consumption of aquatic foods grew from an average of 9.9 kg per person in the 1960s to 20.5 kg in 2019, FAO. “Eating animals is unnecessary and cruel. It creates a huge industry which is detrimental to the environment and people’s health,” William Furney,...
by Liza Di Georgina | Dec 15, 2023 | Heartivist Of The Week
In 2021, 606,031 children were served by the foster care system in the US, The AFCARS Report. “Community has become desensitized but what gives me hope is that there is still time to fix it, there are people who go out every day to take action and I hope this...