Because we want to do our part to make this world a little easier for those in need...
So we've decided to fundraise for two awesome charities - one local, one global. Read more about the work these incredible charities are doing below:
The Mental Health Foundation is working to reduce the stigma around Kiwi's stuggling with Mental Health: thethird-leading cause of health-loss amongst New Zealanders
Half of the world’s rainforest has been destroyed in the last 40 years. Cool Earth works alongside indigenous villages to halt rainforest destruction.
Local people stand to lose the most from deforestation but the most to gain from its protection, that’s why they are the forest’s best possible custodians. All Cool Earth partnerships are community-owned and led.
By developing local livelihoods, their mission is to end the cycle of deforestation entrenching villages into further poverty. Creating strong, self-determining communities.
They are also the only charity that works solely where the threat to the forest is greatest, on the frontline of deforestation. They work strategically, each of their partnerships a shield to make the neighbouring forest inaccessible to loggers – saving millions of acres of further forest.
1 in 6 New Zealanders are diagnosed with a mental health disorder at some stage in their life; even more are undiagnosed. Yet there is still a huge amount of stigma surrounding mental health disorders.
The Mental Health Foundation is a charity that is constantly creating new initiatives with the aim of making New Zealand free of stigma and discrimination towards those that have a mental illness- a society where all people flourish. They take a holistic approach to mental health, provide free education and advocate for policies and services that support people with experience of mental illness, along with whānau and friends.