by The Pollination Project | May 22, 2026 | Animal Rights & Welfare, Climate Resilience, ShiftHappens
Location: Nairobi, KENYA John Nyabwari Nyambane Jr. grew up watching drought devastate farming families across Kenya’s semi-arid regions, a cycle of hunger, livestock loss, and dependency that repeated itself with increasing severity each year. Rather than...
by The Pollination Project | May 13, 2026 | Animal Rights & Welfare
Samanta Fabbris: Weaving Food Systems into Rio's Climate Future We are thrilled to welcome Samanta Fabbris as the newest grantee of The Pollination Project. Her work sits at a crucial intersection: supporting the City of Rio de Janeiro in revising its Sustainable...
by The Pollination Project | Apr 10, 2026 | Animal Rights & Welfare, ShiftHappens
Location: Lombardy, Ontario, CANADA Liz Wheeler has spent years listening to animals that most people never think twice about. As the founder of Secondhand Stories, a chicken sanctuary nestled in Lombardy, Ontario, she built her life around the belief that farmed...
by The Pollination Project | Mar 20, 2026 | Animal Rights & Welfare, ShiftHappens
Location: Ceará, BRAZIL Eliziane Virgolino Alencar Colares has spent years building bridges between worlds that rarely speak to each other, the world of plant-based nutrition and the communities that need it most. A vegan advocate, journalist, and weekly columnist...
by Milena Fraccari | Mar 17, 2026 | Animal Rights & Welfare, ShiftHappens
Last week, something powerful happened in Brasília. During Brazil’s National Animal Week (March 10–12), organized by the Ministry of the Environment through the Department of Animal Protection and Defense, civil society came together in an unprecedented way to push...
