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WOR(l)D Global Network Gives Back In Zambia

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WOR(l)D Global Network corporate social responsibility project World for People Foundation inaugurates the first WfP school in Zambia, first country selected for a WFP project. The school will eventually provide education for over a thousand children
WOR(l)D corporate social responsibility project World for People Foundation is creating socially innovative initiatives in Education worldwide. This  is one of the main objectives which will give life to the very first World for People Foundation school in Kamatipe, one of the poorest outskirts in Kitwe city, Zambia.
The World for People School  is the first project under the World for EDU initiative created in partnership between World for People, WORL(l)D and the local charity in Kamatipe which built the school with just over $500K in donations. The school is composed by 16 classrooms and currently attended by around 940 primary school pupils.
After a year long research trips on site, World for People has decided to take the lead of the school and it will contribute to the education of the pupils and eventually positively affecting the over 15,000 inhabitants of Kamatipe.

Alfonso Galdi – Chairman of World for People Foundation stated: “From multi-level to social, our ambitious goal is now to implement the first experimental

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Over 320 Applications For The Funding Made Available For Development Programmes By The World For People Foundation

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Over 320 applications for a value of over $210 million: this has been the response to the first  international announcement of funding available for development programmes of World for People Foundation(www.worldforpeople.org): an institution that has become in a few months a point of reference at international level. For the first time a foundation connected to a big player in the network marketing as World Global Network arrives at these levels.
Over the next eight weeks the Foundation will evaluate the entries and inform all applicants of the status of their application(s). Due to the large number of submissions, we will however not be able to give individual feedback to unsuccessful candidates. Shortlisted applicants will then have one month from receiving written confirmation of our interest in their project to submit a complete proposal and provide the necessary supporting documents.   
With this international announcement of funding available for development programmes the Foundation proposes to contribute to the sustainable development of emerging economies through the promotion of innovative social projects which offer advanced technological solutions for improving the quality of life and economic conditions of the local population.
This project is designed to improve the conditions of pupils in existing schools in emerging countries and areas of

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The World For People Foundation Signs Up To The UN Global Compact

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The World for People Foundation (www.worldforpeople.org) has officially joined the United Nations Global Compact (www.unglobalcompact.org), the strategic alliance which is made up of both businesses and non-profit organisations and which embraces a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption.
In this way, the businesses and the organisations which lead the process of globalisation can  contribute to ensuring that the markets, commerce, technology and finance develop in a way which combines economic and social growth
The World for People Foundation operates through concrete projects, with minimum environmental impact, designed to increase the well-being of disadvantaged communities.
Alfonso Galdi, the president of the Foundation, declared

“The Foundation is proud to have joined this network and to contribute to the spread of the principles of the Global Compact, which is a powerful tool for the promotion of a more inclusive and sustainable model of economic development. This membership of the Global Compact reinforces the principles and values of the World for People Foundation which  has as its objective the long term and sustainable increase of people’s living standards.”

For more information please contact the directors Roberto Race on: roberto.race (at) wordforpeople.org or Michael Burgoyne MBE michael.burgoyne worldforpeople.org on

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