page_title: Yank Barry
section_title: Global Village Champions Foundation
hierarchical_section_title: Yank Barry / Global Village Champions Foundation
caption_attribution_description: English: 2000 Juárez Honorary Chief of Police, Yank Barry was made Honorary Chief of Police by the Police Commissioner of Juárez
context_page_description: Yank Barry is a Canadian businessman and musician. He is the founder and CEO of VitaPro Foods, a company that makes textured vegetable protein for use as a meat substitute and an apple pectin product called ProPectin, and is the founder of the Global Village Champions Foundation. In his earlier career, he was a musician, songwriter, and music producer, including a stint as the lead singer of the garage rock band The Kingsmen.
context_section_description: Barry founded and heads the Global Village Champions Foundation. The foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the United States, with self-reported net assets for 2016 of about US$7,000 and gross receipts of about US$3,000. The foundation was especially active in 2013, for which it reported net assets of about US$226,000 and gross receipts of about US$835,000. The foundation, which is funded by the profits from his VitaPro food business, said it had supplied 772 million meals to the needy worldwide by April 2012 and had spent more than US$1 million feeding and housing Syrian refugees in Bulgaria during 2012–2013. The foundation said it had supplied more than 1 billion meals to the needy by early 2015, based on its shipping documents and estimated portion sizes.
  He has befriended several boxing champions who have supported his charitable work. Retired champion boxer Evander Holyfield became Global Village Champions's "Goodwill Ambassador" in 2013. Retired boxer Muhammad Ali has also been his personal friend and has worked with Barry on his humanitarian projects. After Barry's involvement in disaster relief in the Philippines, his foundation work has also received support from Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.
  In an interview with The Jerusalem Post via Skype on July 2014, Barry said  that he has provided lodging in Bulgaria for 782 refugees from the Middle East, mostly  from Syria, in two hotels he secured for US$3 million.
caption: Yank Barry and Muhammad Ali at an award ceremony
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