Botanical Blog — Social Missions

Join Whole World Botanicals in supporting Amazonian Indigenous peoples' right to clean and safe water Viana Muller, Ph.D. Your Whole World Botanicals products are being endangered by an oil spill in the Ecuadorian Amazon. What's worse is that a court has rejected an appeal by indigenous and human rights organizations to prosecute the oil company responsible. Every Whole World Botanicals product except Royal Maca and Royal Lucraco derives from the Amazon River Basin, and their continued existence is threatened by the oil companies. We urge you to read this short description and get involved: https://www.amazonfrontlines.org/chronicles/1-year-anniversary-oil-spill/

We have all seen the aftermath of destruction caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico on every news channel across America. The storm pushed the island’s 3.4 million American citizens into a desperate humanitarian crisis. Nearly every home across the island at one point was without power, clean water, food, medicine or fuel.

WWB HELPS PERUVIAN FLOOD VICTIMS Viana Muller, Ph.D. Peru is having torrential rains and widespread flooding this year. People have died from avalanche or drowning, 115,000+ homes have been destroyed, and many families are living in tent cities. According to the United Nations, 3 million Peruvians are at risk for diseases—especially children—due to dirty, contaminated water. As part of our social mission to give back to Peru, the home country of our botanicals, Whole World Botanicals has partnered with Water With Blessings and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, to help empower Peruvian women to provide clean...

Columbia's Amazon has become a wild west for environmental destruction. Criminal loggers and coca growers are swarming in and destroying everything in their path! The area of deforestation jumped 44% in 2016 to 178,597 hectares (660 square miles) compared to the year before, according to official figures released this month. We have to stop this secret attack on the Amazon!

Water Women Reveal Need for Expansion of Our Social Mission Viana Muller, Ph.D. Each time we go to visit the Camu Camu collectors who partner with us on the Rio Curaray in the Amazon River Basin, we learn more about who they are and what they need. On this most recent trip, a new area of need was brought to our attention. First, though, we are very happy to say that when we met with the Water Women who received water filters and training last March, we discovered that the water filter project is going very well. Each filter serves...

Peru is having torrential rains and widespread flooding this year. People have died from avalanche or drowning, 115,000+ homes have been destroyed, and many families are living in tent cities. According to the United Nations, 3 million Peruvians are at risk for diseases—especially children—due to dirty, contaminated water. As part of our social mission to give back to Peru, the home country of our botanicals, Whole World Botanicals has partnered with Water With Blessings and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, to help empower Peruvian women to provide clean water to their hard-hit communities, and prevent disease...

Curaray River Villagers Create Clean Water Viana Muller, Ph.D. >Water With Blessings works to equip, empower and entrust MOTHERS as agents of clean water and compassion for their children and their communities. We recognize and build upon the capacity of local people as the solution for their own local need for safe water.  We know that technology alone is not the answer.  Our first step is to empower mothers in service to their communities...and then we equip them with the highest quality filtration system...finally, we entrust them with the role of Water Woman.  Water Women are the secret to our remarkable success in bringing clean water to families in the developing world. Missioners who serve...

WWB Meets with Leaders in Communities of Camu-Camu Collectors Viana Muller, Ph.D. Viana Muller, co-founder of Whole World Botanicals, visiting the Apu (head man) of the settlement to find out what kind of help their settlement needs the most.

Men from 5 maca-growing communities construct a narrow room with glass walls and ceiling to collect the passive solar energy from the brilliant high altitude sun.

Whole World Botanicals collaborates with our organic farming and wildcrafting partners in the rainforest and the Andes to support not only green farming but also green living.

A Hands on Approach - WWB works directly with native people Viana Muller, Ph.D. "Viana consults with an apu (local leader of a camu-camu collecting community) about challenges of life in the northeastern Peruvian rainforest. Outside commerical interests have clear-cut part of their forest and over fished their rivers, degrading their environment and impoversihing local river dwellers."

WWB Supports & Promotes Bio-energetic Agriculture Viana Muller, Ph.D. Whole World Botanicals' herbs are bioenergetically grown and harested. Maca roots, for example, are sown at the full moon and leafy plants are sown with the new moon. In order for medicinal parts to have maximum strength, plants are harvested at the full moon. These practices of native people all over the world are honored by WWB.