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With increased knowledge and skills of vegetable farmers about environmentally friendly agriculture, so farmers can understand, practice and produce healthy vegetables for themselves, their families and the wider consumer. Besides farmers contribute to protecting the environment by using organic fertilizers and pesticides and decrease the cost production so it will improve the welfare economic of farmers.
Today, organic vegetables still costly due to limited availability in the market, so the fact, organic vegetable consumption can only be made by high-income people. With the increasing number of farmers who produce organic vegetables, it will increase the availability of organic and healthy vegetables in the market so that the price is more affordable by the whole society.

Despite CORE’s recent beginnings, its impact is vast and increasing rapidly. We represent over $1,000,000/year (at current rates) in economic activity dedicated to non-extractive work with a positive impact on human health, the planet, and the environment. The over 10,000 meals that CORE delivers per week displace both unhealthy food options that are made using unsustainable methods, and people skipping meals altogether. CORE Foods increases access to fresh meals and community health by serving over 1,875 pounds of organic, raw, gluten free food per week. Both revenue and meals delivered are expected to double within the next year. And CORE goes further than organic by committing to never include additives in our ingredients and pushing our suppliers to make the finest, purest ingredients to meet our strict quality standards. We are constantly pushing to increase our positive impact.

Our work has started generating tremendous response as more & more users of our products and services have reported significant improvement on their wellness & fitness. However our goal is to achieve a significant impact on the health of the poor and vulnerables, a large number of who fall back into Poverty trap because of their ill-affordability of medical care especially on account of expenses on critical healthcare in their households. We plan to reduce monthly medical expenses in a typical Indian household by 50% and food savings on account of less expenditure on food purchases by another 15% of their monthly expenditure as we guarantee a significant reduction in both food and medicine expenditure against the use of our products and services, We will reach out to about 150000 households through 60 outlets in next 2 years, which means a saving of Rs. 2.3 million (@1500 per HH) alone.

While our past results are impressive for such a small organization (reaching, teaching and inspiring millions of people with an annual budget of under $100,000), we're most excited about our future impacts, especially in connection with our new mini-grants program called Sow It Forward. Launched last year, Sow It Forward leverages the volunteer resources of our community along with the financial and material resources of gardening companies and funders to plant and sustain food gardens that serve vulnerable and underserved populations. In our first year, we offered 80 grants (73 in the US, 7 abroad) that reached 24,000 people and helped them to grow 80,000 pounds of healthy food. Yet, we're just scratching the surface of this program's potential: our online application received over 920 applications in just 5 weeks. Our goal in 2014 is to double our grants and impacts.

Stockbox launched in 2011 with a prototype and followed up with our first store in 2012, which serves a neighborhood of almost 4000 residents who are cut-off from essential resources. We are now working to open our second store in the First Hill neighborhood, which will serve one of the most dense and diverse neighborhoods in Seattle, with 8500 residents and 10,000 workers within a quarter mile radius. By year 5, we will have opened a small chain of grocery stores throughout the region that serve upwards of 35,000 households, enabling us to expand into additional regions with even greater need. Stockbox also measures our impact via number of organic/local products sold; community members hired; non-profits supported; and avoided miles traveled. The value of our projected triple bottom line impact at year five approaches $20 million.

Vitálius ha entregado 100 kilos de panela fortificada a la Fundación Nutrir que atiende diariamente 3 mil niños, con la cual se podrían preparar 6670 tazas de agua panela. Se capacitaron 40 personas de Asprocafe Ingruma en BPM en alianza con el SENA. 4 empleos directos.
En Caldas para el 2013 esperamos llegar a más de 9644 niños consolidando este plan piloto en la región. Adicional a esto estamos ofreciendo por medio de tiendas más de 60 mil kilos de Panela Fortificada que estarán a la mano de los consumidores para mejorar su estado nutricional.
En los departamentos de Valle del Cauca y Nariño se realizará el lanzamiento de Vitálius en un trapiche para llegar a comedores comunitarios y fundadores (canal institucional). En Valle del cauca y Nariño se espera beneficiar a 5 mil y 3 mil niños respectivamente para el 2013, implementando así este piloto en las regiones mencionadas.