Rafael Nunez Aponte: Herbalife Responses to the Communities

Herbalife International Company is an American multinational multi-level marketing corporation that develops markets and sells nutrition supplements, offers weight management, gives sports nutrition and also provide personal-care products. The company was founded by the entrepreneur Mark Hughes in 1980, and it employs around 7,400 people worldwide.

Herbalife

Herbalife does what is right, honest and ethical. These values guide the company from the way they do their business, to their commitment to their communities and how they treat their employees and Independent Associates.

Hetbalife's Social Responsability

Social Responsibility of Herbalife International Company in Ten Principles:

• Comply: with national and international laws and regulations.
• Propose: plans, strategies and actions to achieve business results, social and environmental sought to compromise.
• Respect: human rights, especially the rights of children, and seeking gender equality and inclusion of minority and vulnerable groups.
• Preserve: the quality of products to fulfill their vision and protecting the environment in their operations.
• Strengthen: the presence in the communities where the company operates and where its employees live and work, staying in a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement.
• Simplify: Herbalife for the family to be part of creating sustainable value in a clear, fluent and open manner.
• Communicate: its actions in the three areas of sustainability; economic, social and environmental.
• Run: concrete actions that aim the welfare of Herbalife and society.
• Live: its vision, mission and values.
• Encourage: its Associates, collaborators, suppliers, end customers, competitors and all the other stakeholders to be part of this sustainable vision.

BetCRIS Foundation: Sport and Social Commitment

BetCRIS

BetCRIS Foundation is a nonprofit organization sponsored by BetCRIS Venezuela. It was formally created on September 8, 2008, as the materialization of an initiative that was developed in many years as the organization BetCRIS consolidated in the Venezuelan market. Thus, they have a greater chance to support and benefit different communities for their development.

From the directive staff, BetCRIS is committed to expand its contribution horizons to every place in which the organization is present, the BetCRIS Foundation also have a positive impact wherever it is

Some of the allies of BetCRIS Foundation are:

• Catia Soccer Club
• Cristo Te Ama Soccer School
• Guerreros de Dios Basket School

Catia Soccer Club

The BetCRIS Foundation is present in the Libertador municipality, specifically in the Brisas de Propatria sector, Sucre Distric. The Club Santa Cruz has educated children and adolescents over 47 years in sport terms, in different categories in the football field. Its main objective is the development of sport among children and adolescents, to promote healthy living values, solidarity, integrity and partnership to achieve its objectives.

Cristo Te Ama Soccer School

In 2012 BetCRIS initiated a partnership with the soccer team belonging to the Civil Association Center Cultural and Sports “Cristo Te Ama”, directed by Alvaro Garcia. It does its sports activities in Zona Rental and in the region of Barlovento. This team has participated in different championships in the Capital District and Miranda State. 

“Guerreros de Dios” Basketball School

The cooperation with the “Guerreros de Dios” Basketball School, located in the San Bernardino area, began in 2012. This school, founded in 2008, has Semillita, Mini Basketball, Children, Cadets, Youth and Free categories. It serves children from five years. It has three coaches with Erick Lovera as the President of the School. The BetCRIS Foundation has contributed to the provision of sports equipment, uniforms and, since January 2013, a monthly financial contribution.

Rafael Nunez Aponte: Social Responsibility of Child & Family Service

Child & Family Service is partner with Hawaii’s families to help them address serious life issues, with life-changing results. In this service, people believe that positive change can happen. They help families move from the impossible, to the possible, to new possibilities. Child & Family Service is known for:

Kids

• Helping those that are most vulnerable
• Embracing the total family
• Respecting people for who they are and where they are
• Touching over 40,000 lives every year

Child & Family Service (CFS) is one of Hawaii’s largest nonprofit organizations and touches the lives of more than 40,000 people each year. CFS helps families to address serious life issues, with life-changing results. CFS has been part of the community for more than 115 years and is a family-centered, full-service organization with more than 35 programs statewide. Some of their programs are:

Child & Family Service        

Community Based Residential

The program’s philosophy is to expect, challenge, and empower young ladies and help them to address mental health, emotional and behavioral issues. Counseling for and with their families is also provided.

Neighborhood Place of Wailuku

The Neighborhood Place of Wailuku is a family center located in the neighborhood of Wailuku, Maui. The program provides a full range of services based on the native Hawaiian culture for keiki to kupuna.

Maui Sexual Assault Center:

Work Team

Crisis Intervention, Counseling and Community Education. Adult and child survivors of sexual abuse and their families are offered crisis intervention, trauma care, and clinical counseling through crisis hotline or in person.

Employment Services for Refugees:

Gainful employment is the key to refugees successfully establishing themselves in the U.S. This program offers job preparation, counseling and job placement services with the goal of gainful employment and self-sufficiency.

Social Programs of DIRECTV

DIRECTV is a company that provides a premium television experience through the acquisition, production and distribution of unique and exclusive content, excellence in customer service, and continuous deployment of latest technologies for television entertainment.

DIRECTV uses technology, service, brand and especially its people to create a social change in underserved areas of the region with the purpose of enriching a future generation of DIRECTV customers, employees and, especially, communities. In this manner, the company generates a positive change in the region where they belong.

Some of the programs of Social Responsibility of DIRECTV are:

Escuela+ Program

Escuela+ Program

Escuela+ aims primarily to collaborate, complement and enrich the educational content for primary and secondary education, using DIRECTV technology and educational content from its partners.

Piedra Papel Tijera Program

Piedra Papel Tijera is a corporate volunteer program of DIRECTV that began in 2009 and continues to expand with the help of many volunteers. This program identifies and solves problems in Latin American communities, transforming schools, orphanages, homes and improving quality of life.

Eco DIRECTV Program

Eco DIRECTV Program

Eco DIRECTV is intended to provide a correct and environmentally responsible action way to work. The company implements this important cause through educational recycling programs for employees, collection of recyclables at offices and donations efforts with non-profit entities. 

For example, in order to continue working with the environment, DIRECTV installed solar panels in the California Transmission Center, specifically located in Long Beach. This initiative launched by DIRECTV US, along with DIRECTV Latin America and SolarCity, aims to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and save thousands of liters of water.

Rafael Nunez Aponte: Grupo Bimbo Benefiting the Society, Environment and Community

Social Commitment of Grupo Bimbo

Grupo Bimbo is a Mexican food company operating in America, Asia and Europe. The company produces more than 10,000 products through various brands.

Social responsibility. 

Grupo Bimbo understands that social responsibility becomes more relevant when done together. In this regard, the company provides best practices in the management of the organization and allowing the adherence to international standards, that give the company an opportunity to be compared in the global context and also acquires a training aspect to serve people in their professional and private lives.

In 2012, the communication platform of social responsibility Grupo Bimbo Sembrando Juntos was born. It guides the actions of the company to join forces for the benefit of society, the environment and community development.

Under this concept, Grupo Bimbo adds to their supply chain, its customers and society in general to a program that works in the following areas:

• Create products with improved nutritional profiles.

• Better care, conservation and recovery of the environment.

• The development of the communities in which the company operates.

• Promote personal and professional development of its employees.

Community Development.

Education / Health and Fitness / Environment and Rural Development

Donations

The company has a program of donations to institutions that work in the following areas:

·         promoting physical activity and health,

·         environmental conservation,

·         social development and indigenous development,

·         and education.

Through the donations budget, Grupo Bimbo supports the communities. In 2013, 2.0% of its net profits of 2012 was allocated to support around 300 institutions with financial donations.

Recycling Circuit of Ecological Notebooks for schools

Idea Verde

Idea Verde starts its first circuit of eco-sustainable notebooks which will allow 1,000 low-income children receive 5000 recyclable notebooks that they can recycle and reuse six times for six school years.

Idea Verde has made alliance with four educational institutions offering courses to low-income children in Caracas (Venezuela) which have informed and specified the need they have of counting with notebooks to the children’s degree and their materials.

A un cuaderno de ti

Once collected the financial resources for manufacturing 5000 notebooks, Idea Verde will start the manufacturing process for a month, and after that, the company will give the notebooks to the children on October 15th, 2015.

At the end of the school year, Idea Verde will collect the notebooks for processing them and then, the company will return the notebooks to the children, repeating this recycling process for six years.

The objective. Idea Verde aims to contribute to the educational development of the Venezuelan youth regarding its general aspects and regarding eco-sustainability. Idea Verde specifically wants to:

• Donate 5000 eco-notebooks to 1000 children and teenagers of one school and three nonprofit organizations on the date October 15th, 2015.
• Recycle and return these 5000 ecological notebooks to 1,000 children to create the first recycling circuit of notebooks for the next six years.
• Promote ecological values in the Venezuelan population in innovative ways.
• Collaborate to increase the chances that low-income children have of continuing their education process without interruption.
• Reduce expenditure on school supplies of low-income families.
• Contribute to the reduction of the deforestation.
• Recycle paper, cardboard and plastic.
• Contribute to the creation of a movement for eco-sustainability.

Support schools.

This project will benefit more than 900 families in the first year, and in the long-term it will benefit more than 300,000 families.

Rafael Nunez Aponte: Learn more about Gender-Based Violence

Groups of Support to the Victim

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a term used to describe the harmful acts committed against a person based on the differences that society assigns to men and women separately. This term is used primarily as a way to highlight the vulnerability of women and girls to several forms of violence in the places where they are victims of discrimination because they are women. Important organizations such as UNICEF give us a list of various forms of GBV. The examples they provide include:

• ·         Exploitation and sexual abuse.
• ·         Child marriage.
• ·         Mutilation / female genital cutting.
• ·         Sexual harassment.
• ·         Abuse in the price of dowry.
• ·         Honor killings.
• ·         Domestic or intimate partner violence.
• ·         Deprivation of inheritance or property.
• ·         Abuse of the elderly.

It is important to highlight that there are many institutions and organizations that give support to victims of abuse such as Counter Pedophilia Investigative Unit and PLAFAM (Asociación civil de Planificación Familiar). This association has a program for all the public which objectives are:

1. Awareness and strengthening institutional capacity on issues of violence to improve the detection and treatment services to people living in situations of potential or actual risk.
2. Awareness of violence as a public health issue, both in users as in PLAFAM staff.
3.  Prevention of GBV situations, implementing education programs and guidance to young people.
4. Promoting research on issues related to violence.
5.  Creating intervention and evaluation strategies that allow the optimization of health services.
6. Promote Socio Emotional Empowerment  to Women victims / survivors of GBV.

How PLAFAM Can Help the Victims?

Individual Psychological counseling (psychotherapy)

Attention to children / girls and adolescents victims of sexual violence and providing a service to the legal authorities and, by giving child and adolescent psychological treatment, support groups and counseling preteens, teens and parent in order to protect and guarantee their rights.