A veterinary student watched a street dog die of thirst in 42°C heat.

And decided he would never just wait for the next one to arrive.

Meet Anish Khanal, fifth-year vet student from Lumbini, Nepal, and founder of Project BOW, Bowl of Water. Our newest grantee.

Bhairahawa`s summers are brutal. Temperatures climb past 40°C, and for hundreds of street dogs, birds, and cattle, there is no safe place to drink. Gutters are toxic. Water is scarce.

Anish lived the consequence of that. A street dog arrived at his teaching hospital limp, gasping, already in organ failure. His team ran every emergency protocol they had.

It wasn`t enough.

The dog died. Not from a complex disease, but because, in a city of thousands, he couldn`t find a single clean bowl of water.

That moment changed everything.

Project BOW is Anish`s answer. 50 community-guarded water stations across Bhairahawa. Daily hydration for 150 to 250 street animals through the deadliest months of the year.

But the vision goes further than water.

Each bowl is stewarded by a local shopkeeper, a Guardian, who refills it, maintains it, and becomes an active animal welfare advocate. People who never saw themselves in that role before.

This is grassroots philanthropy. A young person from the community, with firsthand knowledge and the drive to act, turning personal grief into collective care.

Anish can`t stop the sun from beating down on Bhairahawa`s streets.

But he can make sure those streets are no longer a desert.

Welcome to the family, Anish. We believe in Project BOW. 🐾💧

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New Grantee🌟

When the next climate disaster hits, will cities be ready to feed their people?
Meet Noah Wescombe — Head of Policy at ALLFED and a globally recognised resilience expert — who is building the blueprint for urban food systems that can actually withstand collapse.

Based across the UK and USA, Noah`s research tackles one of the most urgent and overlooked questions in climate adaptation: what happens to cities when food supply chains break down? His work maps how urban centres can rapidly deploy shelf-stable, low-resource foods in the face of climate shocks, supply disruptions, and humanitarian crises and crucially, exposes the hidden costs of not acting: food insecurity, spiralling public spending, and delayed emergency response.

With deep roots in climate finance — from the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment to advising major global institutions — Noah brings rare cross-sector firepower to a problem that demands it. And with Brazil emerging as a pivotal market for alternative proteins, this work has the potential to shift how entire regions think about food security.

This is exactly the kind of bold, systems-level thinking that grassroots philanthropy exists to back. No bureaucracy. No waiting. Just urgent, high-impact research that could shape policy, protect lives, and accelerate the shift toward a more resilient, plant-based, and equitable food future.

We`re proud to support him. 🌍

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