Warner P. Woodworth

How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Over the years the Woodworth family has been engaged in numerous community service projects and global humanitarian programs. Below are a few highlights from the past.

Local Community Service

• Hosting handicapped youth in our home and helping to operate the Utah Special Olympics.
• Neighborhood cleaning up yards and homes of the elderly.
• Helping our neighbors organize and load/unload as they relocate. My boys and I once calculated that we’d packed and moved over a hundred families through the years.
• Making sandwiches and preparing lunch boxes for the Food and Shelter Coalition.
• Volunteering at various Church welfare farms to pick fruit (apples, peaches, cherries, pears) to be crated for the needy.
• Serving at the LDS Cannery to bottle the fruit for welfare contributions to poor families.
• Personal fast offering donations to help poor LDS members.
• Our annual Sub-for-Santa family support.
• Ongoing local service projects–building trails in the mountains, painting trash cans in Hawaii, organizing fund-raisers for local groups like the Children’s Justice Center.
• Jointly buying groceries for international student families, packing them carefully and setting them on the porch, ringing the doorbell and running–a real fun Woodworth tradition.

Global Humanitarian Projects

• Our family typically attends several charity banquets/auction events each year to donate products in helping Utah-based NGOs continue or expand their international efforts.
• Over ten years, five of us have raised money and paid our own way to Mali, West Africa to spend two weeks a year doing volunteer village development projects through the Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance–schools, health care, microcredit, etc.
• Micah and Warner led a group of U.S. donors to a ten-day humanitarian service project in Guatemala–building homes, doing square foot gardens, teaching English, etc.
• Erik and Warner spent a week doing volunteer work with victims of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, setting up village banks, volunteering at orphanages, doing computer training, etc.
• Kaye and Warner led an expedition of some 30 Utahns to Peru to carry out the agenda of numerous village development efforts in the Sacred Valley of the Inca, Peru–building a school, setting up a computer lab, and establishing a solar heating system, village library, Lorena stoves, and building greenhouses for family self-reliance.