Showing posts with label Lake Atitlán. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Atitlán. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
New phase, new faces...same goal for the August TMs
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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.