Global Village Champions Foundation is a registered 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization with a 19+ year track record of excellence. Our team has delivered over 555 million meals to hungry people around the Globe. We are determined to achieve "A Day Without Hunger" by Dec. 31 2013. We are determined to realize the vision of having provided One Billion meals to hungry people and fostering an atmosphere of hope for a better future. Help us win the Greatest Fight, the Fight Against Hunger.
Parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are facing one of the worst droughts in 60 years, and more than 12 million people are desperately in need of food, clean water and basic sanitation.
Despite the urgency of the situation, most world leaders are responding too slowly. Immediate aid is essential. Yet at the same time we must not let them drop the ball on long term solutions as has too often happened in the past.
Anderson Cooper talks to musician Bono and Somalian singer K'nann about the famine in Somalia
Bono:“It’s hard to believe that this is the 21st century and you know we mustn’t let the complexity of the situation absolve us from responsibility to act. That’s really the message … When you hear stories, and as you’ve reported, of women leaving their dead children on the road to come beg for food, to choose between children, can you imagine? ‘I have to leave this one, he looks the weakest or she looks the weakest, I’ll take this one.’ This is outrageous! This can’t be happening, it must be stopped. And it’s not our intentions, it’s our actions. It’s not the possibilities of the United Nations or the AU, it’s our priorities that define us. This is a defining moment.”
Join the over 150,000 people that are letting their governments know that they need to urgently provide the funding to help the people in the Horn of Africa Sign the Petition
Yank Barry has responded with a substantial financial donation gifted to our partners that are working in Africa dealing with this crisis on a daily basis. They include The International Red Cross, The International Medical Core andThe Humanitarian Coalition which includes Care Canada, Oxfam Canada and Save the Children Canada. For complete transparency of where the money is spent please visit our Making A Difference Page
We invite you to become a part of our Global Village and become a Member - Your $10.00 Members Fee goes directly to feeding children around the globe that otherwise would have no access to food, water and shelter. Our Foundation is driven by all volunteers and your contributions do not pay any administration fees. Global Village Champions Foundation and Yank Barry are one of the few Not-For-Profit's in the world that does not pay administration fees.
Global Village Champions Foundation has launched our 2011 Summer Membership Drive. Yank Barry, our Founder and Chairman is excited to reward and meet 50 of our members and guests in Las Vegas for the most exciting boxing event of the year - Pacquiao vs Marquez World Welterweight Champion Fight.
The The Members Only Draw will enter you to win an all expense paid trip for two to Las Vegas with many exciting events planned.
We felt it was important for you to know what we have accomplished this past year with the help of Champions and members from all around the world. The world has seen some of the worst natural disasters in a generation and our Global village Champions Foundation has mobilized our resources and NGO partners to provide immediate provisions including water, food, medical supplies and basic necessities.
January 2010 - Devastating Earthquake Haiti
Global Village Champions chartered a private plane and was delivering aid to Haiti within three days of the quake and we flew 7 planeloads of water, food, medical supplies into Haiti in the weeks just following the earthquake. Working with our partners, The Bahama's Red Cross and The Haitian Rotary and the UN we were able to deliver the needed supplies directly to those in need.
Critical Medical Supplies Flown into Haiti days after the Earthquake hit
Yank Barry our Founder delivering plane load of water to Haiti
Orphans Safe and Protected - La Devine Mercy, Port au Prince
Our Foundation has continued our on going support to Haiti and we have adopted and taken stewardship for the orphan children at the La Devine Mercy Orphanage, Port au Prince Haiti
November 2010 - Yank Barry, Founder of Global Village Champions Foundation Receives 2010 Gussi Peace Prize "International Humanitarianism and Philanthropy" for his untiring efforts to End World Hunger.
10,000 Invited Guests watch as Yank Barry is Escorted to Stage to Receive The Gussi Peace Prize
In recognition of the excellent work of Ambassador Barry Gusi and his wife Dr. Evelyn Gussi Mr. Yank Barry gifted to the poor children of the Philippines one million meals.
March 2011 - Mom Luang Rajadarasri Jayankura, affectionately called ‘Mom. Joins Global Village as one of our "Champions" the great, great granddaughter of King Rama IV of Thailand, famously depicted with much license, in the beloved musical The King and I.
"I am honored to join Yank Barry as a Global Village Champion and I truly rejoice with Yank and Yvette's merits in feeding the hungry, "The Perfect Incredible Couple". I am very proud of Yank & Yvette Barry and if we had a couple more of Yank & Yvette, this World will be a better place and we can change the World (World peace).” Mom
April 2011 - Devastating Floods Hit Thailand- The Foundation immediately donated rice and water to be distributed by Global Villagers to the hardest hit areas, Southern Thailand
During Televised Fund Raiser for Flood Victims, Yank Barry Donates 1 Million Meals and $50,000.00
Container arriving by ship of 1 Million Meals of Vita Pro
Vita Pro ready for distribution
March 2011 - Devastating tsunami and earthquake hits Japan - Global Village Champions medical team was in Japan on March 13th to relay their assessments back to Yank Barry. Our immediate response was a donation of 10 tons of rice, 100 field emergency kits, 4 cases of first aid kits and $50.000.00 USD. These donations were made through the Salvation Army, Save The Children, Global Giving, Oxfam Japan, Care Canada and the Red Cross. To view our letters and receipts please visit "Making A Diffrence Page"
April 2011 - Devastating Tornado rips thru Southern United States - Global Village Champion volunteers immediately assessed the dire situation and donated to the Birmingham Salvation Army a truck load of water, over 9,200 bottles, energy bars and bratwurst. Our Founder, Yank Barry immediately flew to Alabama and spent the day touring the devastation with Villager Cameron Jacques and John Tidwell of the Birmingham Salvation Army.
We have accomplished alot this year and we continue to provide aid as first responders in Natural Disasters as well as supporting our NGO partners The Salavation Army, Rotary, Care Canada, The Bahamas Red Cross and others.
The map illustrates countries where we have already delivered enough meals to feed every hungry person in the nation. The global food crisis is real. We are determined to do our part to help as many people as possible. Todate, Global Village Champions Foundation has delivered over 540 million meals world-wide.
Our current projects are focused in the Philippines and Mexico where Global Village Champions Foundation has committed to providing millions of meals to each country. Yank Barry has just completed a visit to the Philippines were once again his love of children and generosity of heart has led to supporting a cancer hospice for children. Yank has donated to feed all of the children for one full year.
Ricky Reyes & Yank Barry visit Child Haus in the Philippines, committing to feeding the children for one year, the children are at Child Haus for the treatment of cancer.
Global Village Champions Foundation strives to be the world wide leader in the humanitarian delivery of nutritious meals to starving people around the globe. Our goal is to see A Day Without Hunger by December 31st. 2013. To that end we have already delivered 492 Million Meals towards our goal of 1 Billion Meals.
"I wish, said the emperor, that my people always be protected from famine. And God gave him a soybean" (Chinese legend).
We thought you might like to be informed of the type of nutritious meals that we donate to countries around the globe. In 2011 Global Village Champions Foundation has delivered disaster relief in the form of meals to Haiti, The Philippines, Japan, Thailand and Alabama in the southern States. In addition to Vita Pro meals we supply rice and beans, water, medical supplies and basic needs.
The food that Global Village Champions Foundation delivers is a soy based meat protein replacement called Vita Pro. Vita Pro was not just born from the desire to replace meat protein with a much healthier vegetable protein, VitaPro is the culmination of years of research into a produce that would be able stable in all environments, as well as easily prepared and distributed in relief situations.
VitaPro is one of the main products used in disaster relief situations around the world.
According to the Pasteur Institute of Lille:
Soya's components have nutritional properties which allow soya-based food products to play a favourable role in a balanced diet. They help us to approach the nutritional recommendations.
The soybean is a food which belongs to the origins and to the future of humanity. It is the food of the future.
VitaPro is a particular presentation of soybeans transformed by a well-developed texturing technology. Among the ingredients are soya flour and textured soya proteins. There are two versions of VitaPro: beef-flavoured and chicken-flavoured . With these two flavours, VitaPro is positioned as a meat substitute. To read the complete report: Vita Pro
Every week we will feature the Top Five Supporters on Twitter that help to spread our message to end world hunger. We truly appreciate you and thank you wonderful friends who have taken the time to read our tweets and graciously re-tweet our message: This week we are very proud to feature:
sassjordan@JackiesBuzz @gogvm @KevinRath that's great stuff .. you might be needing to do that in the U.S. pretty soon, with all the tornados ..
Michael Q Todd @mqtodd LocationEmpire Avenue, Tokyo Webhttp://facebook.c... BioProud CEO of Social Activism on Empire Avenue at http://ht.ly/4Jm1q Recovering Kiwi lawyer now Twitter strategist&love promoter in Tokyo. #lifegasm #green #IDWP
Kate @drkate2012 LocationVirtual/Mobile/Planetary Webhttp://MastersofL... BioThe Sun never says to the Earth, You owe me. Look what happens with a Love like that. It Lights up the whole sky.
Every week we will feature the Top Five Supporters on Twitter that help to spread our message to end world hunger. We truly appreciate you and thank you wonderful friends who have taken the time to read our tweets and graciously re-tweet our message: This week we are very proud to feature:
@MrHolise NameHolise Cleveland III LocationAcworth, Georgia Webhttp://holiseclev... Bio“A time comes when silence is betrayal.”–Martin Luther King | “To me, you’re either an activist or an inactivist.” – Louie Psihoyos #SeaShepherd #Vegan
Featured Tweet: The Planeteers Daily is out! http://bit.ly/gftqhW ▸ Top stories today via @gogvm (Thanks for featuring our article of Top Tweeters
@IamPramit NamePramit J Nathan LocationNew Delhi, India Webhttp://www.pramit... BioThe alter ego of @PramitJNathan - I am the wild one!!
Featured Tweet: CharityTuesday shoutout to @gogvm - we delivered 9K bottles water, food on Sunday to Birmingham, AL || RT @JackiesBuzz @AnnTran_ | RT @Phabi
@noralmt NameNora Lamarti LocationNY Webhttp://onetosix.w... BioMental health and non-profit advocate. PR and social media junkie. Best networking consultant for @jolainteractive. Love a great joke!! Also follow me @onetosix
Featured Tweet: I just followed an amazing organization that helps feed children around the world: @gogvm, now helping children in Haiti. Plz follow & RT.
@FAOnews NameFAO Media Centre LocationRome, Italy Webhttp://www.fao.or... BioNews & info from the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aka #unfao, the UN agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Global Village Champions Foundation is so honoured to be recognized on Twitter @gogvm for our tweets focusing on #WorldHunger by The World Food Organization. Thank you to @JosetteSheeran Executive Director for recognizing our hard work. We strive to be the world leaders in humanitarian delivery of food to people in need.We have delivered over 485 million meals and our goal is to reach 1 Billion by December 31st. 2011, a lofty goal but we are determined to reach it.
Congratulations to the Honourable Mentions that share this honour with us:
We love it when children send us letters after our team has delivered much needed food and supplies to their community. It is so heart-warming to hear how much our help has made a difference in their young lives. This is the reason why Yank and Yvette Barry continue to travel the globe visiting the areas after Natural Disasters lending whatever help is needed.
Here are few of my favourite letters from some of these children:
