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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …