by Milena Fraccari | Apr 30, 2021 | Heartivist Of The Week
Northern Ghana is a region that faces many intersecting challenges: severe poverty, illiteracy, resource scarcity, a growing population, and job loss due to deforestation, just to name a few. In the face of all these circumstances, of what value is the simple act of...
by Milena Fraccari | Apr 1, 2021 | ShiftHappens
The New York winter was beginning and I had just made a decision that was going to change life as I knew it. After a deep and prolonged time of contemplation, I came to a realisation – I had grown as much as I was going to grow as a monk. The time had come to...
by The Pollination Project | Mar 26, 2021 | Heartivist Of The Week
My mind is PonderingMy heart is VietnameseMy soul is an ArtistMy conscience is a Healer – Ngọc-Trân Vũ Born in Vietnam, Ngọc-Trân Vũ came to the United States with her family as a political refugee and grew up in Dorchester and South Boston’s working-class...
by Milena Fraccari | Mar 19, 2021 | Heartivist Of The Week
When Rodolfo was fifteen, he began volunteering at a summer camp called Viamistad. For the first time in his life, he was surrounded by people with disabilities, beginning to make many new friends and learning about their experiences. One of these new friends was...
by Milena Fraccari | Mar 16, 2021 | ShiftHappens
I have a dear friend who is a gifted biologist. Hiking with her, she always manages to notice a ring snake among the leaves, the curved tail of a salamander just below a river rock, or the fluttering wings of some reclusive bird species high up in the canopy. I...
