by The Pollination Project | Apr 14, 2023 | Heartivist Of The Week
“Starting something is an achievement. Taking the first step is already being on the way to something better,” Ruth Abwalo. In Uganda, 1 in 4 women aged 15 to 49 experienced violence by a former intimate partner in 2018, UN Women. Knitting is a silent promise for the...
by The Pollination Project | Mar 30, 2023 | ShiftHappens
Sarah Yener, the English Department Chair at a high school in Antalya, Turkey, created a project that is having a profound effect on the lives of those who lost everything when earthquakes struck the Turkey/Syria region in February 2023. Prior to applying to The...
by Maggie Brawley | Jan 27, 2023 | Heartivist Of The Week
“The world was created with so much diversity; that is its beauty. If we were all the same, it would be boring… colorless. What makes it colorful is the different people we meet.” – Rebecca Olatunji Ayodele Rebecca, founder of the I Can Sign project in Nigeria,...
by The Pollination Project | Jan 13, 2023 | Heartivist Of The Week
Nicole Ndiaye is a mother of two, a farmer, and an incredible entrepreneur whose love of people, animals, and the environment led her to create beautiful community gardens where people can access quality food in the Bronx borough of New York City. “I once had a...
by The Pollination Project | Oct 27, 2022 | Heartivist Of The Week
Do cobblers still exist? As R. Senthamarai discovered during the COVID-19 pandemic when she met with an impoverished community of cobblers in the village of Vilvarani of Kalasapakkam Taluk, Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu, India who had been out of work, the...