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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...

Rainforest destruction from gold mining hits all-time high in Peru Viana Muller, Ph.D. Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years, according to a new analysis by scientists at Wake Forest University's Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA). Full story

Jair Bolsonaro aims to boost mining, farming and dam building in Amazon. Next year's climate talks were due to take place in Brazil, but that has now been reversed by the President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has also made no secret of his desire to open the Amazon to mining, farming and dam building.

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...

  Dear Beloved Whole World Botanicals Community, 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. So many of us are very troubled by the fact that two months after this hurricane struck Puerto Rico, thousands of people on the island are still without access to clean drinking water! As you may know, Whole World Botanicals...

Water Filter Project Expanded to Include Puerto Rico Viana Muller, Ph.D. So many of us are very troubled by the fact that two months after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, thousands of people on the island are still without access to clean drinking water! Because of this unprecedented emergency in own country (the United States), we at Whole World Botanicals are expanding our social mission partnership with Water with Blessings in Peru to include Puerto Rico. We have contributed $1500 to jump start a GoFundMe campaign and invite those of you wanting to make a difference to contribute directly to...

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...

WWB Gives an Appreciated Gift of Notebooks and Pencils Viana Muller, Ph.D. In 2004, WWB distributed 1000 notebooks and 2000 pencils to the settlements along the Curaray River for the children to use in school. When we returned 5 years later, they were still talking about it!

2016 WWB New Year's Card Viana Muller, Ph.D. To our Beloved Whole World Botanicals Customers, The founders of Whole World Botanicals returned so late in December from our working trip to Peru that our schedule for sending out our annual Holiday/New Year's Card was completely thrown off! In these chaotic days of accelerated climate change, we wish you a healthy, purposeful, joyous and peaceful New Year! We live in times demanding the full force of our spirit to embrace and transform. Fortunately, we also continue to live in our dailyness, in our place and person-specific circle of meaning, challenge and...

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...