Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE: NUS) founder, Blake Roney and humanitarian
partner, Napoleon Dzombe were recognized with an international Communitas award
for “Making a Difference in Malawi” through the Nu Skin Force
for Good Foundation.
The
Communitas Awards is an international effort to recognize the
spirit of communitas—people helping people—in
exceptional
businesses, organizations and individuals that are unselfishly giving of
themselves and their resources, and those that are changing how they do
business to benefit their communities. Communitas honored
Roney and Dzombe’s vision and support of the School of Agriculture for Family
Independence (SAFI) at Mtalimanja Village in Malawi which annually houses and
teaches self-sustaining agricultural techniques to 30 Malawi families. The
award was presented to Roney during the company’s Team Elite trip in Paris.
“Thanks to the combined efforts of Blake,
Napoleon, and the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation, the third class of SAFI
students will soon graduate, totaling more than 150 people educated and given
hope for a better life,” said Truman Hunt, Nu Skin president and chief
executive officer. “Students who attend SAFI are taught how to grow food and
become self-reliant by supporting their families through agriculture. I have
seen the amazing change that SAFI has brought in the lives of the students and
their children, providing these families with hope for a brighter future in
Malawi.”
SAFI
is a two-year agricultural education program. During the first year, husbands
and wives attend class together and their children are able to attend school.
The second year of study is an extension program where instructors visit
students and help them implement learned-skills in their own homes. Malawians
completing the SAFI program see as much as a 700 percent increase in their
harvest of maize, soy and peanuts, which is enough to feed their family for a
year, improve their living conditions and send their children to school.
This
is the third consecutive year that Nu Skin has received a Communitas Award for outstanding
corporate social responsibility programs. In 2011, Nu Skin received two
Communitas awards for “The Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation, Mtalimanja
Village” and “Building Futures through Education.” In 2010, Nu Skin received two Communitas awards
for "Excellence in Community Service" and for "Ethical and
Environmental Responsibility."
About
the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation
For
more than 15 years the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation has worked to improve
the lives of children around the world by offering hope for a life free from
disease, illiteracy and poverty. The Force for Good Foundation and Nu Skin’s
distributors and employees donated more than $18 million to Force for Good
charity partners in 2011. Nu Skin covers all administrative and overhead costs
for the 501(c)(3) private foundation, allowing for 100 percent of donations to
be used for humanitarian and charitable causes. More information is available
at www.forceforgood.org.
About
Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc.
Nu Skin Enterprises,
Inc. demonstrates its tradition of innovation through its comprehensive
anti-aging product portfolio, independent business opportunity and corporate
social responsibility initiatives. The company’s scientific leadership in both
skin care and nutrition has established Nu Skin as a premier anti-aging company,
evidenced in its unique ageLOC® science that addresses aging at its
source. Nu
skin’s anti-aging products feature the new ageLOC
suite of products including the ageLOC R2 nutritional supplement,
ageLOC Galvanic Spa System and ageLOC Galvanic Body Spa™, as well as
the ageLOC® Transformation daily skin care system. A global direct
selling company, Nu Skin operates in 52 markets worldwide and has more than 860,000
independent distributors. Nu Skin is traded on the New York Stock Exchange at under
the symbol “NUS.” More information is available at http://www.nuskin.com.