Team Member Volunteer Chronicles: Kenya #6

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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

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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 …

Team Member Volunteer Chronicles: Kenya #4

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Thanks to Lisa Slater from contributing this blog post. Almost every night after dinner, we have a debrief in the dimly lit dining room/sitting room of our home away from home. On the walls are murals of African animals-zebras, elephants, water buffalo, giraffes and tigers and we sit around four …

Team Member Volunteer Chronicles: Kenya #3

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Thanks to Lisa Slater from contributing this blog post. Food. It’s the main reason people come to work at Whole Foods Market. Ask any future Whole Foods Market Team Member why they want to work in our stores and they will say that they are passionate about food in all …

Two Bottles of Wine Doing a World of Good

Lauren EvansFoundation News, Supplier Partnerships

Whole Planet Foundation has partnered with nearly 400 Whole Foods Market suppliers to raise $5.1 million since our inception in 2005, and this month, we are excited to tell you about our first ever wine partnership! ONEHOPE Wine is blazing the trail to alleviate poverty by donating $.50 per bottle of …

Team Member Volunteer Chronicles: Kenya #2

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Thanks to Lisa Slater from contributing this blog post. We’ve all heard of farm to table and many of us have experienced the culinary delight of eating recently harvested food but nothing can compare to the experience the Kenya Whole Foods Market Volunteer team had today. We started by visiting …

Team Member Volunteer Chronicles: Kenya #1

daniel.vidalTravel

Thanks to Lisa Slater from contributing this blog post. I could tell you about the jet lag, the food, the environment but all of that would not be true to the reason I stated on my application to the Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer Program to Kenya. I said …

Wash Away Poverty with Nourish

Lauren EvansFoundation News, Supplier Partnerships

From August 28 through September 10, bodycare supplier partner Nourish has committed 2% of sales across their line of organic lotions and hand washes to support our poverty alleviation efforts in the 57 countries where we work. We are so thrilled to partner with Nourish for this promotion, and we are …

Spindrift Fresh Soda and Seltzer

daniel.vidalFoundation News, Supplier Partnerships

A big thanks to Spindrift for contributing to this blog post. Spindrift makes America’s first fresh squeezed soda and seltzers— sparkling water mixed with a fresh juice base. We began selling in select regions of Whole Foods in 2011. Here’s the story of how we got started: My Mom was …