A Day WIthout Hunger

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

 Thailand

Haiti

Alabama

Please join us In The Greatest Fight, The Fight Against World Hunger

Jackie Bigford

Social Media Director

Global Village Champions Foundation 

Twitter Top Five Tweeters

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:

 Sass Jordan
 @sassjordon
Location Planet Love
Web http://www.sassjo...
Bio Juno and Billboard award winning singer/songwriter

Featured Tweet: 

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  
Location Empire Avenue, Tokyo 
Web http://facebook.c... 
Bio Proud 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

  Featured Tweet:

mqtodd A great example of how the cause @gogvm is using social media to promote themselves and others. Thanks http://ht.ly/55mtq 
@mqtodd #FF Changemakers @gogvm

Pramit J Nathan
@IamPramit  
Location New Delhi, India 
Web http://www.pramit... 
Bio The alter ego of @PramitJNathan - I am the wild one!!

 Featured Tweet:

IamPramit 9200 Bottles of Water delivered to Salvation Army in Alabama following devastation #gvcf http://bit.ly/jeUw3D (Youtube) | RT @gogvm

 Kate 
@drkate2012 
 Location Virtual/Mobile/Planetary 
Web http://MastersofL... 
Bio The Sun never says to the Earth, You owe me. Look what happens with a Love like that. It Lights up the whole sky.

 Featured Tweet

drkate2012 Yank Barry Founder of #GVCF meets with Philippe Douste-Blazy, Under-Secretary-General to @UN http://t.co/F0lY9gY cc: @UNGlobalPulse @phdb

 #EAvChat 7pm EST
@EAvChat  
Location Worldwide 
Web http://facebook.c... 
Bio Join #EAv at http://bit.ly/joinempireavenueforfree Fun 3X a week Tweetchat about #EAv & Twitter Sun, Tues & Thurs 7pm EST 

Featured Tweet:

EAvChat @JackiesBuzz Will you add a @gogvm account to Empire Avenue?? Many non -profits are getting great exposure/supporters #EAv #eavchat

Congratulations to all of our Featured Twitter Supporters.  Join us to realize our goal of A Day Without Hunger by December 31st. 2013

The Greatest Fight
The Fight Against World Hunger

Jackie Bigford
Social Media Director
Global Village Champions Foundation 
 

Twitter Top Five Supporters

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:

@Hadel

Name Hadel S. Ma'ayeh ✓
Location USA/Jordan
Web http://wp.me/pYNi...
Bio Love to Dance!!A Poet,& A Peace Maker ;-)Also,Warning,I twitter a lot!!! http://www.facebook.com/hadelm http://www.linkedin.com/nhome/

Featured Tweet: RT @gogvm #HungerFact: Hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined #gvcf cc: @WFP

Featured Tweet:@Hadel #FollowAlways @gogvm  #Wonderful Tweeps ;o)

  @MrHolise
Name Holise Cleveland III 
Location Acworth, Georgia 
Web http://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
Name Pramit J Nathan
Location New Delhi, India
Web http://www.pramit...
Bio The 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 
Name Nora Lamarti 
Location NY 
Web http://onetosix.w... 
Bio Mental 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 
Name FAO Media Centre 
Location Rome, Italy 
Web http://www.fao.or... 
Bio News & info from the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aka #unfao, the UN agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.





Featured Tweet: #ff #followfriday | For informative & interesting tweets on development, #hunger, #globalag: @gogvm

Honorable Mention  

  @CharityIdeas
Name Amy Neumann
Location Los Angeles
Web http://amyneumann...
Bio *Positively* passionate for: #charity, mobile tech, #sm, interesting people, writing, China, science, new ideas. Eternal optimist! ♦ Good + Tech = Great! ♦ 
 

 @AmazonCares

Name Amazon CARES
Location 33.854719,-84.351406
Web http://amazoncare...
Bio Since 2004. Only domestic animal charity in Peru’s Amazon. Spay/Neuter, Education, Vet Trips, NO-KILL


Congratulations to all of our Featured Twitter Supporters.  Join us to realize our goal of A Day Without Hunger by December 31st. 2013

The Greatest Fight
The Fight Against World Hunger

Jackie Bigford
Social Media Director
Global Village Champions Foundation 

WFP Honours our Twitter Stream

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:

• @ellengustafson  Ellen Gustafson
• @blindspotting  James Greyson
• @LaurenBush Lauren Bush
• @gogvm Global Village Champions Foundation
• @sarahebrewer Sarah Brewer
• @Hellomariflor  Mariflor Atienza
• @eGrapevinea ad eGrapevinea
• @Politicsfuture PabloRafael Gonzalez
• @mdmcknight Michael McKnight
• @ttobinn Tommy Tobin
• @krazee4Kandy  Kudzai
• @farmersfirst Farmers First

For the complete article: April-Hunger-Tweet-Champion-Awards-Announced

Join us in
The Greatest Fight
The Fight Against World Hunger

Jackie Bigford
Social Media Director
Global Village Champions Foundation

Letters from Children

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:

To read more letters from these precious children visit our site: Letters of Appreciation

Join us
The Greatest Fight
The Fight Against Hunger

Jackie Bigford
Social Media Director
Global Village Champions Foundation

Twitter Top Five Supporters

Every Thursday 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:

http://twitter.com/Ann_Tran
@Ann_Tran

♥ Happily Married ♥ Spiritual Seeker. Enjoys Travel, Beaches, Wine, Hiking and Photographing Nature.

http://ann-tran.com/

Featured Tweet: @Ann_Tran #CharityTuesday shoutout to @gogvm - we delivered 9,000 bottles of water, a truckload of food on Sunday to Birmingham, AL || RT @JackiesBuzz

http://twitter.com/JosetteSheeran
 @JosetteSheeran Italy, Rome

My front line reports as head of The World Food Program WFP - the world's largest #humanitarian org. Innovations to FightHunger! (RT do not imply endorsement)

http://wfp.org/

Featured Tweet: Congrats to @gogvm Global Village Champ 4 #HungerTweet Champion honorable mention for April. Read at http://ow.ly/1sMYTP @WFP #hunger

  http://twitter.com/MQTodd

@MQTodd ( Michael Q. Todd)

Loving EA right now - join us at http://ht.ly/4Jm1q A recovering lawyer now a Twitter strategist & love promoter in Tokyo. #lifegasm #green #IDWP #TWIP

http://facebook.com/michaelqtodd

Featured Tweet: To #volunteer in #Alabama go to this site:" Hands on Birmingham" and register http://bit.ly/kGxYJH RT @jackiesbuzz @gogvm


 

 Misty Wuori
http://twitter.com/Mysticle

@Mysticle Charlotte, NC ~ USA

Marketing Chic | Happγ Nature Girl, Embracing my Ness ♥ Sunsets & my Rescues, take lotsa Pics, write a #CLT Pets column on Examiner ☼ Li√e Green & Prosper ☼

http://about.me/mistywuori

 Featured Tweet: We've fed a lot of people - InfoMap of Countries where we've provided A Day Without Hunger http://bit.ly/im74iP RT @gogvm @jackiesbuzz #gvcf

 

 Jim Case

http://twitter.com/jcase59

@jcase59 Lynnwood, Wa.

A single, 52 yrs. young biz ent., workout/fitness enthusiast, loves travel/motorcycles, on a delightful journey pursuing my goals while living my dream. 

Featured Tweet: @jcase59 via @gogvm Donate a tweet a day 2 help raise awareness for Global Village Champions Foundation? http://justcoz.org/gogvm #gvc

Help us Fight
The Greatest Fight

The Fight Against World Hunger

Jackie Bigford

Social Media Director

Global Village Champions Foundation

Images of the Destruction from the Alabama Tornado

The above photos are from the devastation in in the southern US after a tornado ripped thru 5 States, killing a confirmed 290 people. The majority of the deaths were in Alabama.  Global Village Champions volunteers immediately assessed the dire situation and donated to the Birmingham Salvation Army a truck load of water (over 9,000 bottles) and food . The Foundation's Founder and Chairman Yank Barry flew into Alabama and spent the day on touring the devastation along with Cameron Jacques (a Villager) and John Tidwell of Birmingham Salvation Army.

How you can help:

To volunteer go to this site:" Hands on Birmingham" and register http://bit.ly/kGxYJH
 
The Salvation Army: The Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services is responding to the deadly tornado activity throughout the South, mobilizing feeding units and providing support to the victims.
To donate to the Salvation Army's tornado disaster response, visit www.salvationarmyusa.org, click on their donation page and designate "April 2011 Tornado Outbreak."
You can call 1-800-SAL-ARMY and donors can text "GIVE" to 80888 to make a $10 donation. Checks can be made out to the Salvation Army Disaster Relief, P.O. Box 100339, Atlanta, Ga., 30384-0339.

Feeding America: Feeding America helps food banks provide food to communities affected by the recent tornadoes.
To make a donation to Feeding America, visit its online donation page.

Alabama
 
Governor's Emergency Relief Fund: The Fund, part of the Alabama Governor's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, provides additional recovery assistance to Alabama residents who have exhausted all other coverage provided by relief organizations, government programs and insurance. To donate, visit the online donation page.

The Greatest Fight
The Fight Against World Hunger

Jackie Bigford
Social Media Director
Global Village Champions Foundation