Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation
India

Pathway Orphanage
In July 2007, the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation donated funds to Pathway Orphanage to purchase medical equipment, supplies, and beds for the Disabled Children's Living Center.

Rising Start Outreach
The Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation granted Rising Star Outreach funds to assist with the construction of homes on the Rising Star campus. This campus houses 500 children in Chennai, India who are afflicted with leprosy. In 2008, these funds helped with the construction of a school library that serves 200 children belonging to 46 leprosy colonies in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Deseret International Foundation
The Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation donated funds to the Deseret International Foundation to purchase equipment and supplies for eye surgeries for the people of Gurgon, India. Funding will provide approximately 650 surgeries along with about 5,000 eyeglasses. Previous donations include:

  • Donated funds to assist in purchasing a clinical building in the Philippines in 2005
  • Funds to further work done at the Muhubay home in the Philippines and to establish an eye clinic in Indonesia in 2004
  • Donated funds to purchase arthroscopic equipment for a clinic in the Philippines in 2003

For more information on the Deseret International Foundation, please visit www.deseret-international.org

India Pathway Orphanage
The Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation provided a grant to the India Pathway Orphanage to expand a school facility in India by adding a 3,500 sq. ft. wing for a science learning center and library. The school serves 300 disabled children, 100 of which are orphans who reside at the facility and 200 who arrive daily for their education.

Interplast
The Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation donated funds in August 2006 to Interplast to purchase medical supplies and equipment for reconstructive plastic surgeries performed on children in India and China. Interplast provides free reconstructive surgeries for people in developing nations, and strives to improve health care worldwide.

For more information on Interplast, visit www.interplast.org.

Rising Star Outreach
In 2004, Nu Skin's Force for Good Foundation donated funds to the Rising Star Outreach organization to renovate a home being used to provide shelter, food and medical treatment for leprosy patients in Tamilnadu, India. In 2001, Rising Star Outreach was created to help rescue as many of the cast off children and adults in India as possible, particularly those suffering with leprosy.

Previous projects include:

  • Provided funds to purchase a large home to house approximately 100 abandoned and neglected children in Chennai, India in 2003

Environmental education center and plastic waste collection containers in exchange for the creation of a 2,175-acre no-take marine reserve for a minimum duration of 10 years (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Havelock Island, January 2006)
The Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago, situated 746 miles from the Indian mainland in the Bay of Bengal, is comprised of over 350 tropical islands, islets and rocky outcrops of outstanding beauty and diversity. Havelock Island's waters are home to green, leatherback and olive ridley turtles; coral reefs and sea grass beds; and the occasional dugong. In exchange for the establishment of a 2,175-acre marine reserve and a ban on turtle egg collecting, Seacology will fund the construction of an environmental education center, which will be managed and staffed by employees of the local Jungle Resort. Seacology is also providing recycling containers for the collection of waste plastic.

Mangrove seeds and 170 toilets in exchange for the planting of 40,000 mangroves in a three kilometer belt (totaling 3 acres), and improved village sanitation (Mainsh Island, Chilika Lake, January 2006)
Chilika Lake is Asia's largest brackish lagoon. The Kyabart community on the 766-acre island of Mainsh has no electricity and subsist by fishing collectively. With the assistance of the local organization Jeevan Rekhan Parishad, Seacology will provide the village with 170 toilets. As well, Seacology will provide 40,000 mangrove seedlings, which the villagers will plant in a three-kilometer belt around the island.

Andamans Mangrove Center (2004)

The Andaman Islands are located in the Indian Ocean about 750 miles off the eastern coast of India. Seacology is assisting the Coastal Poor Development Action Network (COPDANET) in building a Mangrove Biological Garden and Resource Center in the village of Kadakachang near the Andaman capital of Port Blair. The center's main function will be for education, training and public awareness of mangrove conservation issues to island community members, especially school children. In addition to setting aside a total of 550 acres of mangrove forest as a no take zone, the villagers will undergo training provided by COPDANET and the Department of Environment and Forest to raise 30,000 mangrove seedlings and to restore approximately 123 acres of this mangrove forest reserve.