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This guest blog comes to us from Jainam Giamo, a student at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California. Since his trip to Morocco, he has started a microlending club at his high school. They have 12 members and growing! “It’s not very hot today, only 110 degrees” said the shopkeeper …
This blog post comes from Roxana Newton of the Whole Planet Foundation Field Team. Roxana is the Program Manager for Latin and North America. She visited Paraguay in the summer of 2016. In 2015, our microfinance partner in Paraguay, Fundación Paraguaya, won Whole Planet Foundation’s microfinance organization of the year. When …
Jaimee Rondeau, Associate Marketing Coordinator in the North Atlantic Region and traveled to Guatemala on the Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer Program in 2010. Read about her experience below. If you are a Whole Foods Market Team Member, you can apply for this year’s trips here as long as you are …
Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer Jessica shares how working for Whole Foods Market helped her find her purpose. I had no idea what an amazing company I was working for when I walked through the doors in August of 1996 at the old Greenville location. More than a decade …
In rural Guatemala, four friends battle illness, parasites and hunger as they experiment with living on just $1 a day for eight weeks. Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci are friends of Whole Planet Foundation who have raised nearly $50,000 to help alleviate poverty around the world. Their film, Living on One …
Happy New Year! In the spirit of the season, we are celebrating and giving thanks to Papyrus – Recycled Greetings, Inc., a Whole Foods Market supplier who made the single largest donation in one year that we have received since our inception – $100,000! In just one year, Papyrus – …
Whole Planet Foundation wants to acknowledge the achievements of the Field Officers who work for our microfinance partners around the globe. In July 2014, we piloted a new Field Officer Appreciation Award in the Africa/MENA region. In total, this region includes 22 partner institutions that collectively employ more than 6,000 Field …
Thank you to the ORGANIC INDIA team for contributing to this post! It was hard to ignore the surprise in their eyes when we walked into the village. These women, with their weathered skin wrapped in a rainbow of faded-but-fine saris, were not accustomed to seeing westerners in person. …
A big thanks to Morgan Peretti, a former Whole Planet Foundation Team Member, and Whole Foods Market Team Member volunteer alumni for contributing this blog post about her experience volunteering in Ghana. Earlier this summer I had the amazing opportunity to go on the Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer …
This quarter we received these two special client stories from our partners Grameen Ghana and One Acre Fund. Samata, a client of our partner Grameen Ghana “Whole Planet Foundation support has made me a true entrepreneur” – A story received from our partner Grameen Ghana in northern Ghana. “I am …
