{"id":19515,"date":"2022-12-01T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/blog\/uncategorized\/\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:20:37","slug":"greenhearts-global-impact-grant-december-2022-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/blog\/greenheart-international\/greenhearts-global-impact-grant-december-2022-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenheart&#8217;s Global Impact Grant &#8211; December 2022 Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Greenheart believes in connecting people and planet through fair trade, personal development, environmentalism, and volunteerism.\u00a0 Our cultural exchange programs help create global leaders by building mutual understanding and fostering diplomacy. And Greenheart encourages our alumni to give back to their communities through our Global Impact Grant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Greenheart Global Impact Grant is a financial award of up to $1,000 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Congratulations to our December 2022 Awardees:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Precious Esi Mensah \/\/ Ghana\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tiara Prasetyaningtyas \/\/ Indonesia<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19517 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-275x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-275x207.jpg 275w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-576x433.jpg 576w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-201x151.jpg 201w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-640x481.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-770x579.jpg 770w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-368x277.jpg 368w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o-400x301.jpg 400w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536129179_9d140d20e6_o.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Precious Esi Mensah, a f<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">ormer Summer Work Travel participant in 2018 and 2019, wins for her Project RISA:\u00a0 Resilience for Inclusive and Sustainable Agriculture in Ghana<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Precious Esi Mensah is the founder of Liquid Love Foundation &#8211; a skill training and menstrual health nonprofit organization, focused on empowering Ghanaian women and young girls in remote communities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">She is also the founder and editor of Nonprofits in Africa &#8211; a premium news website and growth partner for African nonprofit organizations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Precious participated in Greenheart&#8217;s Summer Work and Travel program in 2018 and 2019 at Rushmore Tramway Adventures in Keystone, South Dakota and at Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 2019, she participated in Greenheart&#8217;s Global Leaders&#8217; conference in Washington DC and was featured on a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7adyOdxPzB4\">Greenheart Connects episode in 2021<\/a>.<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Precious is a graduate of the University of Ghana with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Nutrition and Food Science. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her Project:\u00a0<\/strong> Daeyiri is a leading agricultural community in the northern part of Ghana. Farmers in this community travel over 10 kilometers just to access electricity to charge their mobile phones that then connect them to agents\/networks for selling their products. Project RISA seeks to train these last-mile farmers in Daeyiri on basic digital literacy and how to build portable solar power banks using electronic waste. The project also offers climate-change education and climate-smart solutions to the farmers using their native language, \u2018Dagomba&#8217;, via WhatsApp voice notes. Precious has completed her project. To learn more about its success, check out her summary post <a href=\"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/blog\/greenheart-club\/risa-empowering-ghanaian-farmers-with-solar-power-banks-from-electronic-waste\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19518 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-311x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-311x207.jpg 311w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-227x151.jpg 227w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-80x53.jpg 80w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-368x245.jpg 368w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o-60x40.jpg 60w, https:\/\/greenheart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/52536116274_1fd08a71a8_o.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Tiara Prasetyaningtyas of Indonesia wins for her &#8220;Agni Project&#8221;, an initiative to help tailors with disabilities recycle clothing and remake fashion waste into sellable items at local markets.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW80727059 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW80727059 BCX8\">Tiara <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW80727059 BCX8\">Prasetyaningtyas<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW80727059 BCX8\"> is from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She attended <span class=\"TextRun SCXW210194835 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW210194835 BCX8\">Martha Layne Collins High School <\/span><\/span>Greenheart on the YES Program in 2014-2015 and also participated in The Greenheart Global Leaders Conference in 2019 Previously, This is her second Greenheart Grant win! The first was in 2019 for a project to revitalize rural libraries Yogyakarta, Indonesia when she was a law student. Today, Tiara is an associate lawyer specializing in business <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW80727059 BCX8\">cases<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW80727059 BCX8\"> and is exposed to many problems caused by fashion factories. She wants to use the grant to help her community support the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW80727059 BCX8\">zero-waste<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW80727059 BCX8\"> fashion, local market movement, and provide employment opportunities for people with disabilities.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW80727059 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her Project:\u00a0<\/strong> The Agni Project will collect leftover fabrics and old clothes that can be reworked to increase the selling value of the items. Tailors with disabilities will be part of the project&#8211;making repairs to clothes that are still fit to wear. Concentration will be on fabrics with natural base materials such as linen and cotton, as well as fabrics with natural dyes that do not pollute water sources. These reworked items will then be sold at local market events around the city of Yogyakarta to encourage buying from local crafters. Tiara hopes this can improve the economy of the people around in her home town. Tiara has completed her project. To learn more about its success, check out her summary post <a href=\"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/blog\/greenheart-club\/trace-on-earth-empowering-those-with-disabilities\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Congratulations to Precious and Tiara!\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait to see how their projects progress.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Got a project in mind?\u00a0 Earn up to $1,000 for an opportunity to create, improve, or maintain a community-focused project abroad or at home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>Follow Greenheart on Facebook and Instagram to see when the next application window opens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenheartclub.org\/\">If you\u2019d like to learn more about Greenheart\u2019s scholarships and grants programs, visit GreenheartClub.org.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-weight: inherit\"><a style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/donate\/\">Click here if you\u2019d like to donate to help Greenheart fund the Global Impact Grant program.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-weight: inherit\">Thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenheart believes in connecting people and planet through fair trade, personal development, environmentalism, and volunteerism.\u00a0 Our cultural exchange programs help create global leaders by building mutual understanding <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37188,"featured_media":19516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[384,386,389],"class_list":["post-19515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenheart-international","tag-global-impact-grants","tag-greenheart-gig","tag-greenheart-global-impact-grant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20184,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515\/revisions\/20184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/19516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}