Global youth enhancement company Jeunesse took its annual service and cultural immersion trip to visit one of the villages sponsored by its nonprofit foundation, Jeunesse Kids.
A group of approximately 80, including company officials, Jeunesse Distributors and their families and WE Charity Co-Founder Craig Kielburger traveled from around the world to visit the village of Los Rios, Ecuador.
Generous contributions from Jeunesse Distributors allowed Jeunesse Kids to partner with WE Charity and their WE Villages program to bring access to five critical elements — clean water, education, healthcare, food stability and income opportunities — to the remote Amazon Basin community of Los Rios. This five-pronged approach gives the people of Los Rios the power and dignity to support themselves and to lift the community out of poverty.
Trip attendees toured the newly constructed school building and participated in a diploma ceremony for the summer school students, who beamed with pride as they displayed their work and received diplomas.
Jeunesse representatives and Distributors also had the opportunity to roll up their sleeves, don hard hats and help with the construction of a water tank that will bring to surrounding homes the clean water generated by the school’s new water treatment facility.
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