Announcing Greenheart’s Spring 2024 Global Impact Grant Winners
Greenheart believes in connecting people and planet through personal development, environmentalism, and volunteerism. Our cultural exchange programs help create global leaders by building mutual understanding and fostering diplomacy. Greenheart further encourages our alumni to give back to their communities through our Global Impact Grant.
A Greenheart Global Impact Grant is a financial award of up to $2,000 given to exemplary members of the Greenheart community. It provides current participants and alumni with the opportunity to create, improve, or maintain a community-focused project abroad or at home. As the Greenheart alumni network continues to expand, more and more of our participants are working towards an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and peaceful world.
Please join us in congratulating our FOUR Spring 2024 Awardees:
- Damaris Emily Weche // Kenya
- Dinara Makhmud // Kazakhstan
- John Dewald // United States
- Saima Afroze // Pakistan
Damaris Emily Weche of Kenya (Teach USA Teacher with Greenheart – Current) wins for her project “Empowering Adolescent Girls in Khwisero, Kenya: Menstrual Health and Education Support”
Her Project:
“Empowering Adolescent Girls in Khwisero, Kenya: Menstrual Health and Education Support” helps to provide menstrual health support and resources to secondary school girls in Khwisero, Kenya. The project goal is to provide menstrual and sexual health education to decrease the risk of unwanted pregnancies and sexual involvement to lead to positive education goals.
Dinara Makhmud of Kazakhstan (Greenheart’s Work Travel Program – 2019) wins for her “Recycling Awareness Campaign”
Her Project:
“Recycling Awareness Campaign” aims to raise awareness of the importance of garbage collection and sustainable waste management in her Kazakhstan community. The project goal is to help teach residents the proper ways to separate and recycle waste through informational materials. The project will raise awareness, train on the proper ways of recycling, reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills, and promote environmental responsibility amongst the community.
John Dewald of the United States (High School Exchange student with Greenheart Travel – 2016-2017) wins for his “Feeding Families in the Favela: Food Recovery for Nova Doroteia” project
His Project:
“Feeding Families in the Favela: Food Recovery for Nova Doroteia,” aims to begin food recovery throughout the community of Nova Doroteia, Brazil by providing 40,000 meals to families in need. With over 33,000,000 Brazilians facing food insecurity, Feeding Families in the Favela: Food Recovery for Nova Doroteia will provide hope to the community and provide food recovery opportunities for families in the future.
John has worked with Greenheart previously. He continues to create open food availability in Brazil communities while making last impact in the neighborhoods. s
Saima Afroze of Pakistan (Teach USA Teacher with Greenheart – Current) wins for her “Student Spaceflight Program Mission18” project
Her Project:
”Student Spaceflight Program Mission18,” is designed to take a team of microgravity experiment finalist students to the Kennedy space-station in Florida to see the final launch, meet the astronauts (wearing the school patch designed by students), and conduct their own conference to share their accomplishments and experiments amongst others in attendance.
Saima hopes the project motivates more students to study space science and design microgravity experiments to provoke outside the box thinking and to help the future of scientists.
Congratulations! We can’t wait to see how their projects progress.
Got a project in mind? Earn up to $2,000 for an opportunity to create, improve, or maintain a community-focused project abroad or at home. Follow Greenheart on Facebook and Instagram to see when the next application window opens.
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Thank you!