Leader of Sierra Leone FWOP chapter organized environmental meeting near Freetown and planted 750 Moringa trees in Mano village. Teaching teaching ecological monitoring in Sierra Leone, World Environment Day Planting Moringa trees Mano
In two towns have installed Cooperative Grocery Stores in two locations – Cairo and Cutler, Illinois. Many partners have helped this process, e.g., Agriculture Extension – University of Illinois, Arise Veteran Foundation, local politicians. In Cutler, a house was provided manager who was a veteran and his family. The photo below was taken in Cairo where the manager has a 4000 square feet facility. There are over 180 cooperatives in Illinois now.Hope Rises in Cairo Around New Food Co-Op – Illinois Buy Fresh Buy LocalVillage of Cutler looking to bring a Disabled Veteran to town to run new grocery store [ Read More ]
Ten years ago FWOP took UNT graduate students to Apango. In 2019 the Apango Team in Jalisco was formed by Fernando Martinez and his family to assist Apango. Some 750 residents, many who pick avocados, are excited about the future. Fernando a recent graduate of Monterry Tech have created a plan after sitting down with residents- Proyecto Semilla. 2022 and 2023 have been exciting years!In May 2023 FWOP/Rotary team from Texas visited Apango. Team members visited households who built their own clean stoves. Combination of USA and Mexican dollars paid for materials. The plan is to slowly replace some 80 stoves [ Read More ]
Buying Local to Create a Lasting Impact Future Without Poverty recognizes people worldwide make who make a lasting, sustainable impact on our society. This past year, the pandemic permanently or temporally closed over 110,000 restaurants and bars in the United States—affecting over 2.5 million jobs. While the United States is working towards recovery, there are those individuals and shops who managed to survive the pandemic. Then there are those who not only survived but continued to support their community in the process. Chef Bill Hawkins at the Bluebird located in Stanford, KY, exemplifies buying local to create change and positively impact [ Read More ]
Women Recovering from Human Trafficking, Tribal members in USA and Nicaragua, and Veterans in Oklahoma: Southwest Leather being recycled and Tool for Development! Arise Veteran Foundation (FWOP affiliate) has been linked to Retreaded (www.rethreaded.com/pages/the-mission) in Florida and the 4000 women across the globe for some years now. Arise and FWOP with it link to SWA has used leather sent to them to make products –thus lowering their costs of production. They sell items on their website and now on the Arise Veteran Foundation website. In 2020, with COVID-19, Retreaded moved to produce masks for the hospitals of northern Florida. Arise VF [ Read More ]
With the many challenges facing the world, what should FWOP and its partners do to contribute to solutions? FWOP can turn around local areas, states, and nations. Our roles may be socio-economic initiatives, supported by a customized marketing campaign by companies like The Marketing Heaven, that will challenge typical ways of organizing our world – what Karl Mannheim called ‘utopia’ – realistic futures to work toward. Costa Rica: ‘Utopia’In 2017, under the leadership of Dr. Eliecer Vargas, the FWOP Summit was held at CATIE (https://catie.ac.cr/en/). Since then two major initiatives have emerged, one of them is maid in Missouri, check [ Read More ]
