February saw some significant progress in small and larger projects. Locally in Denton, Texas FWOP started a small afterschool program in the Fall of 2010. Neriman Esendemir from Istanbul got the program started. She passed the program on to five graduate students under the supervision of Dr. Traci Cihon from Behavior Analysis Department. The program is at the Renaissance Apartments operated by Denton Housing Authority for low income families. Spoke to some representatives from a local Afro-American neighborhood groups last week to create some micro enterprises to support low income seniors in Denton. Recently a colleague at UNT called to [ Read More ]
Some 50 individuals with links around the world met at the ATC-DISD facility, i.e., Turkey, Togo, Gabon, Nigeria, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Ghana, Peru, Ohio, Virginia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Puerto Rico. Some high points for me. The establishment of the web store FWOP in 2011 will assist micro-producers in USA or abroad. Initially items from Oaxaca and Ajijic, Mexico and from Lima, Peru will be offered . Representatives from EPA lead to a potential partnership to allow FWOP to coordinate the recycling solar panels for use in low income communities. In addition, we continued to learn more about [ Read More ]
Group has ‘future without poverty’ By Danielle Bice / Contributing Writer –www.ntdaily.com From small field trips to Mexico to fighting poverty in countries like Haiti and Peru, Future Without Poverty helps build sustainable communities by bettering the lives of those in need. While the group makes plans to expand their projects to countries like India, there are still projects in Denton. The organization builds partnerships with community programs, like the Denton Rotary Club, to organize service opportunities like delivering food to the hungry. “We believe very strongly that you help individuals by doing one thing and one thing only –– [ Read More ]
Los Martincitos Senior Citizen Center Located in a sprawling shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, the Los Martincitos Senior Citizen Center goes quietly about the business of fulfilling the most basic of daily needs for approximately 145 indigent elderly. Participants often live alone in harsh conditions, with little or no family support. Elderly abuse and neglect are common. Many suffer from debilitating medical conditions and very often have a hard time getting to the center which necessitates home visits from staff whenever possible. The center offers a hot and healthy breakfast and lunch; access to limited medical care by [ Read More ]
FWOP Team, Warm ‘thank yous’ to the team and everyone from UNT Dallas: Assistant Provost Dr. Ross for his words and support, their faculty advisor Dr. Mason who did a great job leading and developing the garden, and Frances Rizzo, Carolyn Kimball and the entire FWOP team for putting this together. This is an exhibition garden, paving the way for the next big community garden which will make it possible for local produce to help the community and raise valuable horticulture awareness. Please forward to everyone not on the email list whom could benefit from the pictures. Thank you again [ Read More ]
We have received approval from Dr. Ross for the Community Garden Plot Project. It will start as an Exhibition Garden for the fall and to allow for fundraising then have a Spring garden. The school is giving us an initial $500.00 I feel strongly that the guidelines for existing service learning programs at other universities such as the University of Indiana (Dr. Ross came from there) www.indstate.edu/publicservice/gardenproject.htm primarily for sustainability funding and UNT Dallas just spent $45 million on a LEEDS building. The Dallas County Master Gardeners Association is ready to help us with the project along with Don Lambert, Gardening [ Read More ]
Hosted by: Future Without Poverty (FWOP), an international non-profit, and the University of North Texas Department of Sociology Location: Troy and Sara La Grone Advanced Technology Complex, 1504 Long Rd, Denton, TX 76207 Time: 8:30am – 6:00pm Topics include: Sustainable development projects in Peru, Haiti, Mexico, Sierre Leone, Nigeria, Togo, Turkey, Bangladesh, India, and more! Renewable energy projects in impoverished communities and rural schools Music for community empowerment and eliminating poverty Local initiatives in North Texas for progressive, sustainable communities Innovative workshop on micro-gardens for urban and suburban living
What a fantastic summer this was for us – and what a great autumn it is shaping up to be! Thanks to all of you, we were able to make a huge leap this summer. Last summer, our first full summer running trips, we were able to give loans to 9 women in Teotitlán. This summer we gave out 75 loans! It was because of the people you talked to, the reviews you wrote on TripAdvisor and other websites, the stories you posted in your blogs, and all the feedback that you’ve given us to make our program even better [ Read More ]
Summary This project will build a global online market place that is devoted to creating jobs for 100 families (500 people) in poverty. The only solution to reducing poverty is to create jobs. What is the issue, problem, or challenge? Poverty can be found in every country and can be a life sentence of hunger, thirst, illness, illiteracy and premature death. Most handouts are only short term band aids to the problem and create a dependency. The only real solution to eliminating poverty is to create jobs that pay a livable wage based on the local economic conditions. Individuals that [ Read More ]
