Environmental Protection is one of three pillars upholding the framework of our Purpose Earth grant and mentorship program. This pillar supports projects working to alleviate environmental degradation, restoring and protecting natural resources and finding solutions to climate change.
Explore the extraordinary projects committed to this important work below.
Transforming the Environment, Transforming Lives is an environmental sustainability initiative aimed at empowering the women and youth of Asikabew, a community located in the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa, through education. The initiative educates villagers on how to transform both natural and artificial waste products into reusable, eco-friendly products. The project initiative also provides a platform to sell their eco-friendly products to generate funds and improve their community living conditions.
Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo
Two Apurina communities in Boca do Acre and Baixo Pauni, in Brazil
The Indigenous Peoples of Brazil Water Project’s mission is to build drinking water wells for two Indigenous communities in Acre in Brazil: one in the Apurina community in Baixo Pauni and another for those living near Boca do Acre.
Meeting with the Apurina women near Boca do Acre in 2023, Co-Founder of the Planetary Healing Centre, Claudia Goncalves learned that they are without immediate access to drinking water and have to walk long distances carrying water for their families and home. Elders, mothers, and children have an endless task of carrying buckets of water every day while the men are working collecting Brazil Nuts. The Apurina community in Baixo Pauni is facing similar hardships. This community, comprised of 130 to 140 families, including children and elders, relies on an igarapé (a small stream) for drinking water, which is contaminated and causing illness. This project is in motion to provide wells to these two villages that are in desperate need of a sustainable source of clean water.
Saptari District, Nepal
Asikabew, Ghana
Transforming the Environment, Transforming Lives is an environmental sustainability initiative aimed at empowering the women and youth of Asikabew, a community located in the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa, through education. The initiative educates villagers on how to transform both natural and artificial waste products into reusable, eco-friendly products. The project initiative also provides a platform to sell their eco-friendly products to generate funds and improve their community living conditions.