Sponsored walk
8th April - 6.30pm - Sutton Park
Together with Aveda, the Shear Success team, family and clients, from Tamworth and Sutton Coldfield, held a Walk for Water in honour of Earth Month and in support of Global Greengrants Fund an organisation working to support and preserve clean water around the world.
This year, Aveda introduced a new global initiative that acknowledges the daily struggle of over one billion people around the world who do not have access to clean water. The Aveda Walk for Water campaign united the Company’s network and guests in a series of walks around the world to raise awareness and funds to protect clean water.
The Shear Success walk took place on Wednesday 8th April 2009 at 6.30pm and covered five miles around Sutton Park collecting water along the way, the average distance that women in developing countries walk to collect water per day.
We raised a FANTASTIC £610 !!!!!
"Water is a supply we all take for granted, we just turn on a tap!! The shear success team felt that by walking 5 miles which is the distance people around the world walk to collect their supply it would help make us all realise just how lucky we are."
2009 Earth Month Partners
For the third consecutive year, Aveda has partnered with as their exclusive global Earth Month partner to provide grants for community-based water projects around the world. Global Greengrants Fund provides small grants to grassroots organisations working for clean water, clean air, sustainable livelihoods and healthy communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and island nations around the world.
Earth Month 2009 builds upon the momentum created by the Aveda Earth Month 2007 and 2008 campaigns to work towards making clean water a human right and accessible to every person on the planet.
- More than 3 million people are severely sickened and 220,000 die from pesticides each year worldwide.
- Agriculture is the leading source of impairment in U.S. rivers and lakes, and a major source of impairment in estuaries.1
- 78% of countries report pesticide contamination as a threat to health.2
- Our mission at Aveda is to care for the world we live in, from the products we make to the ways in which we give back to society. At Aveda, we strive to set an example for environmental leadership and responsibility, not just in the world of beauty, but around the world.
1 U.S. Department of Agriculture
2 Women’s Environment and Development Organisation
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Angela Gough
Shear Success
