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The XanGo Goodness movement is actively supporting service initiatives with charitable partners around the world. Getting involved is a priority - a central part of our worldwide philanthropic program. Come take a tour of our global Goodness initiatives.
February 2009, Founder and Board Member Gordon Morton joined the University of Utah in returning to Ghana for the fifth consecutive year of XanGo’s sponsorship of the Barekuma Village Project.
XanGo Goodness in Ghana, Africa
Each year, the project’s impact is enhanced with a focus on education and sustainable solutions to long-term village needs. In February, the work continued by providing medical care, training for doctors and other health professionals in Ghana, and a census of the local population.
Additionally, Gordon was there for the official dedication of a new soccer pitch for the youth of the village. Donning XanGo jerseys, the village youth played before a large crowd, as the entire village took in the game. The winning team received the official Real Salt Lake jersey with XANGO emblazoned across the chest. The pitch is just another way of helping to improve quality of life for these villagers.
Each year, as the group returns to Barekuma, the villagers there grow more trustful of the University of Utah’s intentions and more progress is measured. XanGo is excited to continue to support this worthy charitable initiative and will have more exciting news in the months to come.
Last year, XanGo was the title sponsor for two Operation Smile charitable missions in Guadalajara, Mexico. Taking place at the Instituto Jaliscience de Cirugía Reconstructiva José Guerrerosantos, together these missions provided more than 200 life-altering cleft-lip and palate surgeries for children from all parts of Mexico. Partnering with world-class and first rate charity Operation Smile, XanGo helped fund medical supplies, organize volunteers and provide travel and surgical costs for the children and adults receiving the medical procedures.
XanGo took an active role in helping fill needed volunteer positions to support the medical missions. Partnering with more than 80 XanGo Distributor volunteers were company executives and employees including founders Kent Wood and Joe Morton. Each mission lasted nearly two weeks, during which XanGo volunteers met with and counseled patients and their families, provided needed translation services and gave away several toys and other items they had brought for the children.
XanGo is proud to do its part in supporting Operation Smile as it makes a difference one smile at a time. These surgeries, while relatively simple, have a lasting impact on these individuals and their families, breaking down the barriers of societal isolation and alienation that many face because of their facial deformities. In about one hour, through carefully performed surgeries, medical volunteers open up new avenues of opportunity for these children, possibly altering the lives of generations to come.
XanGo supports numerous worthy charities in the U.S. as well as other deserving non-profit organizations. Some of these include:
As the title sponsor of the 2008 XanGo Wishmaker Parade for the Children’s Wish Foundation, XanGo and its Distributors volunteered with thousands of others to raise more than $1.46 million to grant wishes to children with high risk, life-threatening illnesses.
In October 2008, Founder Joe Morton joined many XanGo Distributors and other volunteers at a parade in Montreal. Over the course of one month in the fall of 2008, the Children's Wish Foundation’s premier fundraising event attracted 18,000 pledged walkers and 2,500 volunteers, taking place in more than 100 communities across Canada over the month of October.
Launched more than 20 years ago in Atlantic Canada, the Wishmaker Parade is a national parade-style walk for the entire family. Participants include families, individuals, corporate and community groups who raise funds by collecting pledges to grant wishes for children with high-risk, life-threatening illnesses.
More than 14,000 wishes have been granted by Children’s Wish since its inception in 1984. Every child enjoys an enhanced quality of life including the experience of laughter, shared joy and memories with the important people in their lives to the tune of about 900 wishes per year.
Since 2008, XanGo has been the title sponsor of Vitamin Angel’s India program. Through its Vision 20/20 program, Vitamin Angels is focused on eradicating global Vitamin A deficiency.
This year alone, Vitamin Angels will reach 4.5 million children around the world. XanGo is pleased to provide monetary and other resources to help propel this vital program in India. As a result of XanGo’s continued support through 2009, Vitamin Angels will administer a total of more than 3 million doses of Vitamin A to Indian children in remote regions of this grand country, in just two years. Quite literally, this program is saving lives.
The statistics in India are startling, where more than 126 million children are under the age of 5 and malnutrition can be a daily reality. Vitamin A deficiency is caused by chronic malnutrition and lack of red, green, yellow and orange, leafy fruits and vegetables. The consequences of this deficiency can lead to childhood blindness, as well as death from measles, diarrhea and malaria. By giving each child just two Vitamin A tablets per year – at a cost of 25 cents per child – Vitamin Angels is helping to ensure these children lead healthy lives and enjoy a brighter future.
XanGo is proud to be able to contribute to this wonderful program and change countless lives in India.
XanGo has been involved with the Yokohama Family House inititiave (House of Lila) since March 2006.
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Each year, XanGo staff has assisted fundraising efforts by volunteering for charity concerts that benefit the House of Lila. Completed in June 2008, the House of Lila provides rooms for families who need to stay near the hospital where their children receive medication and intensive care. This has allowed fewer families to suffer from separation from their children. The House is highly valued by both families and the hospital, and XanGo is pleased to support this worthy initiative.
XanGo actively supports international children’s charity SOS-Kinderdorf through a specific donation to help fund activities in the Schleswig-Holstein village, located near the town of Lujtenberg, close to the Baltic Sea.
SOS-Kinderdorf’s northernmost village in Germany, the Schleswig-Holstein village houses 55 children in 12 family units. Operating for more than 30 years now, the village provides assisted living, residential care, non-residential family assistance, and education and training measures for young people ranging from remedial instruction to social work projects and career guidance.
Since 1949, SOS-Kinderdorf has been active in the field of children’s rights and committed to children’s needs and concerns. In 132 countries and territories, this international non-governmental social development organization focuses on providing housing and a stable family environment to children without parental care and with difficult family circumstances.
Organizing villages throughout the world, SOS-Kinderdorf builds housing and educational facilities that support full-time living for these children. Volunteers serve as parents to the youth and raise them as part of family units. The work of the volunteers is admirable in that it requires sacrifice and dedication on the part of these loving individuals to provide stability and care to the children in need. Most SOS-Kinderdorf graduates end up going on to complete their university studies and find success in their careers. XanGo is pleased to support this valuable work to lift the rising generation of German youth.
XanGo is a proud sponsor of the Children’s Charity Association of Taiwan. The mission of this charity is to promote initiatives to care for disabled, sick and underprivileged children.
In 2008, XanGo helped fund a series of summer camps that provided music therapy to the hearing-impaired. Through long-term music rhythm courses, the Association helps these children cross over into the world of sound and build up their confidence in interacting with people around them. Since 1996, hundreds of children have benefited from the services provided by this worthy charity, which has plans to expand beyond the borders of Taiwan.
In 2008, XanGo partnered with the Tuloy Foundation, a charity that provides housing and education to orphaned and abandoned street children.
Tuloy also provides classes to out-of-school boys and girls from indigent communities or other street children centers. Serving a much-needed role in The Philippines by integrating neglected and abandoned children back into society, the Tuloy Foundation is continually expanding its outreach. Founded by Father Rocky Evangelista in 1993, the Tuloy Foundation has grown from a small room at the St. John Bosco Parish Compound in Makati City to a major facility in Alabang that provides education, and often housing, to nearly 600 children. Tuloy hopes to expand its capacity in the future to accommodate up to 1,000 children each year.
