Welcome to Greenheart Connects
A FREE online series to inspire viewers to care for the earth and for each other. Each month, we share original stories about environmentalism, volunteering, fair trade, and personal growth.
Dream Empowerment & the Liquid Love Foundation
Presious Esi Mensah
Precious Esi Mensah is the founder of Liquid Love Foundation in Ghana. She is a two-time Greenheart Summer Work Travel alumna and a graduate of the University of Ghana. Her desire to help her community--and to see people smile--led her to create an organization dedicated to caring for others. Precious organizes the energy of 70 people on the LLF team to provide various assistance to...
Fair Trade & the Amazon Rainforest with Jerónimo Cooklin of PaTS
Jeronimo Cooklin
Jeronimo Cooklin founded the Sustainable Furnishings Council to transform the home furnishings Industry and to help preserve the world's forests. Involved in the furniture Industry since 1986 and in Sustainable Development since 1998, he founded PaTS, a nonprofit in the Peruvian Amazon. PaTS has been working since 2000 with Yanesha indigenous community respectfully helping them to become artisans and business people, thus creating a dignified...
Living a Life Dedicated to Helping Others
Georgia Van Cuylenburg
“We have only today. Let us begin.” It is a Mother Teresa quote near to Georgia Van Cuylenburg’s heart. Georgia has dedicated her life to working with people born into unjust experiences. She is an outspoken advocate for global human rights and ending childhood trauma, and is deeply involved in several causes and organizations. We’ll hear from Georgia and how she was moved and motivated...
Cultural Exchange = Personal Growth
Beatriz Gomez and Paula Lorente
Beatriz Gomez and Paula Lorente are a mother-daughter team who will share their personal development stories—both influenced by the power of cultural exchange. Paula will graduate from a Spanish high school in 2021. She was an exchange student with Greenheart in 2018-2019 and earned the Junior Greenheart Global Leaders Conference scholarship that year. She’s involved in activism events related to climate change and the preservation...