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WaterAid - Aveda Earth Month 2011 · 1 April 2011 ·

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WaterAid is an international not-for-profit, determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. Only by tackling these three essentials in ways that last can people change their lives for good.

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<p><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px;"><strong>WE BELIEVE CLEAN WATER IS A HUMAN RIGHT!</strong></span></p> <h2 style="font-size: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><strong>DID YOU KNOW?</strong><br />It costs WaterAid, on average, just &pound;15 to reach one person with lasting access to a supply of safe water and sanitation, which means that Aveda's support could help us reach over 5,300 people!<br /><br /></span><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Join us for Earth Month 2011 where our focus is on helping provide access to clean water for children and families around the world.<br /><br /></span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">In the developing world unsafe water, poor sanitation and bad hygiene spread diarrhoeal diseases that are fatal and keep millions more children out of school and families out of work.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Children often suffer the most from a lack of clean, safe water so they are our focus for AVEDA Earth Month this year.&nbsp;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Since 1999, our global network has raised over $14 million for Earth Month projects. The 2010 Aveda UK campaign raised &pound;115,000 which was supported by WaterAid and Global Greengrants Fund projects around the world.&nbsp;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><strong>Learn more at <a href="http://www.aveda.co.uk/earthmonth" target="_blank">www.aveda.co.uk/earthmonth<br /><br /></a></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000000; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><strong>A GLOBAL CRISIS<br /></strong></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><strong><br />84 million people</strong> in the</span></p> <h2 style="font-size: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly </span><strong style="font-weight: normal;">one in eight</strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> of the world's pouplation. (WHO/UNICEF)</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px;">2.6 billion people </strong><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is almost </span></span><strong style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px;">two fifths</strong><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"> of the worlds population. (WHO/UNICEF)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <h2 style="font-size: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">1.4 million children</strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"> die every year from diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation - </span></span><strong style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">4,000 deaths a day or one child in every 20 seconds.</strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"> This equates to </span></span><strong style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">160 infant school classrooms</strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"> lost every single day to an entirely preventable public health crisis. (WHO/WaterAid)<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-weight: bold;"> <h2 style="font-size: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial;"><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>WATCH WATER AID IN ACTION </strong>&nbsp;</span></span></span></h2> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD2KyMgBYtY" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD2KyMgBYtY</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;</span></span></a></span></span></h2> </span></span></span></h2> </h2>

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