Last week we took a group of Whole Foods Market team members to Mexico to reward them for their hard work during this year’s annual Prosperity Campaign. The trip included a tour of Grupo Alta’s Whole Trade Guarantee farm, a visit with our partner Pro Mujer and adventures in Mexico City. We …
Client Stories from our Africa/MENA Partners!
This quarter the Africa/MENA region received 5 client profiles from our implementing partners. Dative of One Acre Fund Rwanda Dative, a farmer in Rusizi, Rwanda, was not always a good farmer. “I never applied fertilizer to my crops, and would grow two or three crops in the same field. I …
Win a Trip to Mexico to Meet the Women You are Helping
Would you like to win a trip to Mexico, courtesy of Intrepid Travel? Read on for your opportunity to travel abroad and experience the sights, sounds and tastes of this truly unique travel destination as well as learn about the transformative power of microcredit! Currently, we’re funding poverty alleviation through microcredit …
Adventures in Hope
A BIG thanks to Sarah Medlin from Seventh Generation for contributing this blog post. Adventures in Hope by Sarah Medlin I work for Seventh Generation, one of the founding members of Whole Planet Foundation’s Supplier Alliance for Microcredit. So when I had the opportunity to begin working with Whole Foods Market …
Grameen Ghana Client Profile
Gaining Financial Independence through WPF – Azuma Azuma is a petty trader in the Aka-esitaaba credit association in the Nyariga Central community of the Bongo District in the Upper East Region. She is married with two (2) kids both of whom are in primary school. She is in her 4th …
ASALA Microfinance Client Profiles
ASRA is a 20 year old living in a small village in Nablus. Asra’ completed her primary education and was married shortly after and now has 1 child. Before taking a loan Asra’ worked in farming and had 4 sheep. She heard about Asala from another women who had taken …
Team Member Volunteer Chronicles: Kenya #7
Thanks to Lisa Slater from contributing this blog post. Café Ubuntu is officially open! It was a day of brilliant sunshine, blustery winds, and over 200 guests-even more than expected-walking and driving up the dusty, potholed, red dirt road leading to the rolling land that is the vision and future …
Recalling a Volunteer Trip to Ghana
A big thanks to Ted Cox for contributing this blog post. There’s never a good time for a power generator to give out, especially in a rural village like Nyariga, Ghana. But when Joe Rogoff, Whole Foods Market Pacific Northwest region president and board member of the Whole Planet Foundation, …
Team Member Volunteer Chronicles: Kenya #6
Thanks to Lisa Slater from contributing this blog post. People say rain is good luck. If that is so, then the unusually heavy rain pouring down tonight, on the eve of the opening of Café UBUNTU bodes well for its future. The reason we are here, the completion of Café …
Team Member Volunteer Chronicles: Kenya #5
Thanks to Lisa Slater from contributing this blog post. Overcoming Obstacles. We have had an incredible experience, here in Maai Mahiu. So far, we have met people with enormous generosity of heart who live on virtually nothing; we have met elderly women who take care of HIV orphans; we have …