Eat Well - Do Well

In 2000 some friends and I created Unitus (www.unitus.com), a Seattle based organization that helps poor people throughout the developing world become economically self-reliant. Working with 22 partner organizations we are now providing microcredit loans and other basic services to over 7 million poor women and their families. Each woman is contacted weekly and over 97% of our loans are repaid (better than ANY commercial bank during this period of financial crises).

Interest in this life-changing idea is catching on! You can now eat well and do well at the same time. Whole Foods Market shoppers have the opportunity to empower the poor through microcredit by donating at the registers at all U.S.-based stores during the Whole Planet Foundation Prosperity Campaign that runs from February 18 through March 31, 2009. One hundred percent of contributions will go to microlending projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States.

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