Cargill Cares Volunteer Award Winners
Winter 2006
ASIA
Alan Lindsay – Cargill Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain Australia in Melbourne, Australia, has been an active volunteer for 17 years with the Sandringham Life Saving Club. He is a member of the club’s executive committee, participates in instructional teams for those under six, and is a relief member of the patrolling team for beach patrol duties.
SOUTH AMERICA
Cargill Cares Bolivia Team (15 members) – Cargill Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain ABPU in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, has volunteered for five years with Habitat for Humanity. Cargill donates funds for Habitat house construction. The team helped in the planning, coordinating, and building of a house for a deserving family. Team members who helped in this process are: Maria René Berrios, Oswaldo Caballero, David Calderón, Pablo Calzadilla, Vicky Coca, Pablo Duran, Cesar Eid, Scarlet Lewin, José Luis Marín, Diego Moreno, Eduardo Nanni, Roxana Rivero, Aldo Rossel, Manuel Tomichá, and Roland Vargas.
Cargill Harinas Planta Pilar Team (24 members) – Cargill Flour Mercosur in Buenos Aires, Argentina, volunteers with Escuela EGB N°3 ‘Prebistero Juan Isidro Illescas’, For two years the team has made improvements not only throughout the school’s building, but also created an emergency evacuation plan and practiced it onsite. Additionally it taught a road safety class, held numerous celebrations for the children, added bars to the school’s library, and constructed a playground. Team members include: Orlando Barcena, Ramón Berthet, Eduardo Bran, Fernando Casa, Diego Coronel, Luis Dagostino, Julio Doyhenart, Ricardo Escobar, Luis E. Fernandez, Marcelo Ferreyra, Delio Foti, Alejandro Gomez, Juan Gonzalez, Luis Grimaldi, Sergio Guerrero, Pedro Lucero, Eugenio Nemiña, Adrian Ojeda, Juan Prato, Maria Victoria Rossi, Pablo Ruiz, Ana Paz Soldan, Fabio Stivala, and Soledad Varela.
Nery Carvalho Filho – Cargill Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain Brazil in Balsas, Brazil, has visited the children and teachers at Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (APAE) for one year. The organization aids children with special needs by serving 160 mentally disabled children with education, meal, and medical assistance. He also volunteers in the school’s market garden whenever possible.
Grupo de Ayuda Comunitaria Quequén Team (7 members) – Cargill Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain APBU in Quequén, Argentina, volunteer at Escuela de Educación Técnica N°2 –‘Gral. Mariano de Necochea’, a technical high school that offers courses to teenagers, 13-17 years of age, hoping to enter the workforce after graduation. The team leads professional training courses to the school staff; supplies material used in workshops, donates furniture, and gives tours of the Cargill facility. Team members include: Cristian Aringoli, Marcelo Castaganari, Anibal González, Sonia Lopez, Alejandra Mateo, Jorge Schmith, and Fabricio Vecchini.
Resistencia Plant Team (31 members) – Cargill Flour Mercosur in Resistencia, Argentina, has volunteered one year at Escuela de Enseñanza General Basica N°319 – ‘Juan Manuel Rossi’. The team made the school and its grounds secure for the 1st – 7th graders by installing bars on windows and around the playground. It also has worked with instructors to set up an incentive-learning program funded by Cargill (PIL). The team took part in making book donations, and organizing two festivals (Children’s Day and Student’s Day). Team members include: José Luis Almiron, Adriana Raquel Armando, Marcelino Ayala, Sebastián Bertino, Héctor Edgardo Blanco, Nicanor Cantero, Juan Carlos Cappello, Osvaldo Ariel Casal, Victor Ramón Castillo, Daniel Angel Cerutti, Daniel María Cirillo, Pablo Cristaldo, Carlos Alberto Figueredo, Dardo Manuel Jiménez, Marcos Glavas, Carlos Jose Gomez, Ramón Eugenio Gomez, Gerardo Melchor, Marcelo Adrian Mina, Eduardo Ramon Muñoz, José Eduardo Ojeda, Ramón Jesús Pedroza, Ramón Anibal Perez, Carlos Omar Ponce, Soledad Milagros Provasi, Victor Marcelo Ramirez, José Luis Roggero, Oscar Roberto Romero, Tomas Daniel Segovia, Angel Ramón Silva, and Roberto Silveira.
Tres Arroyos Plant Team (21 members) – Cargill Flour Mercosur in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has come together this past year in order to help Escuela Primaria Básica N°13 – ‘Constancio Carlos Vigil’. The team held workshops for teachers for a reading promotion plan, designed the school’s emergency plan, donated items such as fire extinguishers, soccer balls and more. It arranged for a theater group to come and perform for the children at the school. Team members include: Sergio Aieta, Eduardo Asef, Horacio Carioni, Luis Carrara, Gustavo Caucino, Carlos Cedeira, Pablo Conti, Jorge De Isasi, Daniel del Arco, Ricardo Di Rocco, Nicolás Faienza, Guillermo Larenze, Carlos Molfese, Roberto Novales, Mario Pignol, Fernanda Poloni, Guillermina Fernández, Favio Stivala, Martín Rodríguez, Marcelo Swaels, and Diego Zurita.
NORTH AMERICA
The Amazing Racers Team (6 members) – Wilbur Chocolate in Lititz, Pennsylvania, participated in the 2006 Lancaster Rely for Life and raised over $7,800 for the American Cancer Society and their county. The team volunteered over 1,000 hours in the past year and held several fundraisers. Team members include: Becky Jones, Lisa Markley, Laurie Marquart, Betsey Roberts, Laurie Salimbeni, and Rose Weit.
Debbie Brinkman – Cargill Beef in Guelph, Ontario, has been a mentor to a child in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Guelph for seven years. She is not only is a “Big”, but also joins in fundraising events, helps find sponsorship and prizes for “Bowl for Kids Sake”, attends monthly meetings among others.
Kenny Durst – Cargill Pork in Ottumwa, Iowa, has been a coach and mentor to athletes of the Southeast Iowa Special Olympics for over 30 years. He holds weekly practices, transports athletes to competitions, makes travel arrangements, and fundraises.
Mike Galbraith – Cargill Animal Nutrition in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been involved in Farm Safety 4 Just Kids for over 7 years. He teaches children and youth about farm safety at day camps, and farm show booths. He encourages co-workers to get involved with the effort. He has helped chapter initiation through his offices and much more.
Tom Guinan – Cargill Corn Milling, Blair, Nebraska, has volunteered 2 years with the Blair Area Chamber of Commerce as a board member and as a lead on the building restoration for the chambers’ new location. He organized volunteer participation, set up work schedules, involved contractors in the restoration progress. The manual labor volunteers he lined up saved the chamber $30,000.
Shawn Hodge – Cargill Beef in Guelph, Ontario, is involved with Friends of the Grand River that develops, promotes, and implements projects that will preserve, conserve, and enhance the ecology of the Grand River watershed and valley. For three years he has helped keep the river area clean, build steps and benches by it, educate anglers about regulations, fundraise, and organize tree-planting events.
Darrell Huck – Cargill Retiree in Seguin, Texas, volunteers with the Guadalupe Valley Habitat for Humanity. The past two years he has been on the Board of Directors, served as a chairperson of the Public Relations and Fundraising Committee as well as spoke on behalf of the organization in community and formal presentations.
Barb Kuntz – Cargill AgHorizons in Wayzata, Minnesota, has volunteered over 70 hours per year over the past five years with Forest Hills Elementary School. She teaches art, helps with book clubs, and helps at school functions. She promotes math and helped start a math program for grades 1-4 called “Hungry for Math – Activity Bags”.
MS 150 Bike Tour Team (2 members) – Natureworks, LLC in Blair, Nebraska, and Minnetonka, Minnesota, each team member has coordinated the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s MS 150 Bike Tour in their state for five years (Matt Musinski in Blair, Nebraska; Grant Braasch in Minnetonka, Minnesota). The team recruits event participants, promotes it, helps organize it, designs employee team jerseys, and participates in it.
Shirley Norman – Horizon Milling, LLC in Etobicoke, Ontario, has been involved three years with the St. John’s Ambulance – Therapy Dogs of New Tecumseth. She visits local senior citizen’s homes weekly with her therapy dog, participates in community events, parades, and annual fundraisers.
Bill Preston – Cargill Salt in Breaux Bridges, Louisiana, has served as a Water Matters Coordinator for the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District for 11 years. He rewrote the program in order to teach Enviroscape-‘Wrongway City’ and water chemistry to elementary school children. He has taught 350 pupils each year and coordinated a workshop for teachers and for the River Legacy Living Science Center.
Kristi A. Schultz – Cargill North American Financial Service Center in Fargo, North Dakota, has volunteered for the Absaraka Recreation Park for over nine years. Each year she coaches two baseball teams for which she recruits players, creates schedules for, makes equipment available to youth that the park does not provide and much more.
Taryn Schutte – Cargill CVAM & Walmart Team, in Springdale, Arkansas, has been involved this past year with The Rafiki Foundation, Inc., which helps orphaned and vulnerable children in Africa. The Foundation provides a childcare center for orphans as well as education up to the secondary school level. She went to an AIDS orphanage in Ghana where she cleaned, painted buildings, volunteered in the garden, taught pre-school, kindergarten, and vocational arts classes.