Tuesday, September 21, 2010
INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
TMs Enjoy their First Week with the Children!
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Welcome to the WFM Team Member Volunteer Program blog where you will able to hear about TMs' activities on the community education project, meetings with micro-financing borrowers, as well as supporting the Whole Planet Foundation's overall mission and objectives.
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- School meals at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
- School for Mayan Children, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
- Energy efficient cooking stoves at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
GVI is a non-political, non-religious organisation, which through its alliance with over 150 project partners in over 30 countries, provides opportunities for volunteers to fill a critical void in the fields of environmental research, conservation, education and community development.
Facts and figures
- Support given to the communituy for Hurricane Agatha
- 3 new whiteboards installed
- 74 stoves built
- 170 children fed lunch and fruit daily
- 2 kitchens fully equipped
- 14 visits to Grameen Centers
- 14 visits to An Allegro coffee plantation
- 14 Cultural tours around the lake
- Over 535 hours of Spanish classes completed by TMs
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The mission of the Whole Planet Foundation, a Whole Foods Market foundation, is to create economic partnerships with the poor in the developing-world communities that supply our stores with product. Whole Planet Foundation funds microcredit loans in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Supplier Alliance for Microcredit is a global alliance of companies who are currently vendors to Whole Foods Market and share a desire to change the world, one entrepreneur at a time.