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ALLEVIATE POVERTY AROUND THE GLOBE

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COME FROM?*

3.1 MILLION

Microcredit Loans Funded

$43.1 MILLION From Whole Foods Market customers

$30 MILLION From Whole Foods Market

$11.9 MILLION From Whole Foods Market

suppliers

$9.5 MILLION From Whole Foods Market

team members

$1.5 MILLION From corporate donors

$1.4 MILLION From individual donors

$147,000 From events

FUNDS HER FUTURE

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Whole Planet Foundation works to alleviate poverty in communities where Whole Foods Market sources products:

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?*

$73 MILLION$84 MILLIONAuthorized to

microfinance organizationsDisbursed to

microfinance organizations

Htay is a client of Whole Planet Foundation’s Myanmar partner, BRAC’s new Natogyi branch, which just started disbursing funds in January 2017 with capital from Whole Planet Foundation. She used to work as a day laborer, weaving baskets. However, with her first microcredit loan, she invested 200,000 Myanmar Kyat (≈$148) to buy raw materials from Mandalay to start her own business. Typically, she can weave five plastic market bags a day and then sell them in the local market for 2,000 MMK/$1.50 (small ones), 2,500 MMK/$1.85 (medium) and 3,500 MMK/$2.60 (large).

Photo courtesy of Whole Planet Foundation’s Daniel Zoltani

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expand home-based businesses that will generate income for their families. When these funds are

repaid, they remain in the borrower’s community to generate additional loans.

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We alleviate global poverty by funding microcredit in communities that supply

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world, where a small loan can help a very poor entrepreneur build a home-based business so she can create a better life for her family.

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