Foundation News

The D. Gary Young Foundation (DGYF) Awaken to Healthy Living fundraising conference will be held in St. Louis, March 30 – 31. Learn from the founder and president of Young Living Essential Oils, D. Gary Young, as he makes a special stop at the beautiful Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet.

As a pioneer in the field of essential oils, Gary will bring new and exciting information about oils being sourced and discovered from around the globe! The DGYF is privileged to have Gary and four additional leading educators in their respective fields share their latest findings. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about and time support the D. Gary Young Foundation.

Event Schedule and Costs:

• Friday, March 30, 2012, 7:00 p.m.: Semi-formal dinner with Gary. $75 per person or $600 for a table of 8.
  

• Saturday, March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.: Gary Young and leading educators will share their latest research and findings.

• Saturday Registration: $99 per person through March 2. After March 2, registration is $109 per person. Lunch not included. (The hotel restaurant and 11 restaurants are within easy walking distance.)

• The first 200 registrants who book a hotel room at the Sheraton will receive preferred seating! (limit 2 preferred seats per hotel room)
  

•  A complimentary shuttle is available for all guests to and from the St. Louis Lambert Airport to Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet. A special room rate has been negotiated for this event.

Call 1-888-665-1372 or Click here to Register for Awaken to Healthy Living

Educators:

The DGYF is truly honored to bring this experience to the Midwest. In addition to Gary’s wealth of wisdom, you will hear from:

Marcella Vonn Harting

Young Living Crown Diamond and best-selling author of Guerrilla Multi-Level Marketing, who will share her tools on health and nutrition.

Dr. HK Lin

Clinical cancer researcher from the University of Oklahoma, who will discuss his research on cancer and frankincense.

Dr. Christi Bonds-Garrett

Dr. Garrett will teach about her findings on women’s hormones and health issues.

Gary Young’s passion for making a difference in the world is the key driving force for this event. Gary understands that Young Living distributors want to make a difference in their communities, and by contributing to eduction, he is better equipping them to make this happen. By supporting Awaken to Healthy Living, attendees will catch Gary’s vision for making a difference in the world by learning how the DGYF is impacting remote parts of the world!

REGISTER NOW for this exceptional event! Registrations may also be made by calling 1-888-665-1372.

Karen Malone and Shannon Hudson recently organized a semi-annual, two-day training event that included a fundraiser for the D. Gary Young Foundation. We are grateful to them for their successful efforts. These funds will help us touch the lives of so many individuals.

If you are interested in organizing any type of fundraising event in your town, please contact DGYF’s Director, Don Clair at 618.974.9866 or email info@dgaryyoungfoundation.org for details.

Gary Young’s passion for helping others has improved the lives of many people around the world, including the students at the Young Living Academy in the rural community of Chongon, located on the outskirts of Guayaquil, Ecuador.

When Gary and his wife, Mary, moved to Ecuador to begin the development of a new Young Living farm, they were constantly stirred by the tiny, impoverished school that they passed every day going to and from the farm. The conditions of this little school were deplorable, with no kitchen, no running water, no electricity, cracks in the cement, broken chairs and tables, a hole in the ground outside with four cardboard-like walls used as a toilet, and little resources for teaching and learning.

Traveling back and forth lasted only a few weeks before a plan was in place. Gary’s love for children and his desire to help others inspired him to build—not just a new school, but a brand-new, American-standards school for the students, using resources from The D. Gary Young Foundation.

Gary and Mary worked to convert what was once swampland into a beautiful location for the new Young Living Academy. The school was built for the original 47 children of the old school but is now “bulging at the seams” to provide educational opportunities for approximately 160 children ages 5 through 14, many of whom are children of Young Living farm employees.

Not only does the school offer education to children but also to the parents of the students and other adults in the Chongon community who desire to attend night classes to learn Spanish, English, and other skills. None of this would be possible without generous contributors to The D. Gary Young Foundation.

Several more projects are on the horizon, including a new high school and other academic and cultural additions for the academy and the Chongon community. To reach these goals more quickly, Gary recently built a brick factory on the Young Living farm, which will provide jobs for local residents, as well as higher-quality and less-expensive building materials for both projects and will help generate money to support these and other projects.

This is a new type of brick that is made by compressing dirt and water. The equipment comes from South Africa and is the only production of its kind in South America. The bricks are perfectly formed to fit together without mortar and without any cement. This means they are extremely inexpensive to make and will afford all kinds of designs with different colored soil. It will be very exciting to watch this new business grow at the farm and what it will do for the school, farm, and community.

Gary’s hope is that the local students will continue their education and eventually become leaders in their country. Of the school and its students’ successes, Gary explained, “This is the model for what can be done around the world.”

Click here to learn how you can become a contributor to The D. Gary Young Foundation and help move the children and community of Chongon.

The St. Louis community recently had the opportunity to hear Dr. Lin, a medical researcher, share some of his latest findings using essential oils in cancer research. Dr. Lin described to his audience of health professionals how frankincense oil destroyed bladder cancer cells. His research discovered that the oil of frankincense suppressed cancer cell growth and then triggered bladder cancer cell death by activating several cell death pathways. It was an exciting day for the audience to hear whom they support with their donations to the D. Gary Young Foundation.