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The nonprofit helps rural Haitians build composting toilets and develop organic gardens using recycled waste as fertilizer. It also provides community hygiene education and reforestation. Everything is aimed at breaking Haiti’s widespread cycle of contamination and disease, and safely convert human waste into agricultural fertilizer that’s increasing crop productivity and the availability of healthy food. Psychotherapist
Jacqui Bishop and Integrative Nutri- tionist Lisa Feiner, co-founders of Sharp Again Naturally, in White Plains, New York, believe that dementia is revers- ible, and no case should be consid- ered hopeless until all causative factors have been tested and ruled out. Their resolve for eliminat- ing causes of disease rather than manag- ing symptoms is based on University of California, Los Angeles, research studies and sources quoted in a Health Advocates World- wide documentary. Project Yoga Richmond, estab-
Jacqui Bishop Lisa Feiner
lished in 2010, makes yoga accessible to everyone in the city’s metro region. Thirty yoga teachers lead pay-what- you-can studio classes that help fund 22 outreach programs for underserved communities. Healing programs are designed for needs related to autism, recovery, seniors, special students and youths in the court system. “We also provide continuing instructor educa- tion, visiting teachers, workshops and other special events that deepen yoga practice in our community,” says co- founder Dana Walters, who serves as the board of directors vice president.
Enriching Lives As an Emmy Award-winning trumpeter, composer, educator and co-founder, conductor and artistic director of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (CJP), Orbert Davis is dedi- cated to multi- genre projects. His collaborative research in 2012 while in Cuba on a people-to-people exchange accompanied by fellow musi- cians and River North Dance Chicago’s Artistic Director Frank Chaves (now re- tired) proved to be a multifaceted boon. It generated the philharmonic’s
Orbert Davis
Havana Blue live performance in 2013 and ignited a weeklong cultural exchange with Cuba’s Universidad Ciudad de las Artes (ISA) during his return trip for the Havana International Jazz Festival in 2014. President Barak Obama’s announcement of the nor- malization of Cuban/U.S. diplomatic relations opened up the possibility for a continuing CJP/ISA relationship, as well as their 2015 landmark partnered event when 37 ISA students traveled to Chicago to perform Scenes from Life: Cuba at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Davis promises more such events to come. All of these individuals represent
a small percentage of the game-chang- ers actively moving to create an alter- native future. Estés observes, “What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts; adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group that will not give up during the first, second or hundredth gale.”
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