Simmons Natural Bodycare To Share Its Revenues With Hunger Charity Heifer
Small Business Making a Big Difference Through Charity Partnership
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Bridgeville, CA. - July 1, 2004 /SoapWire/ -- Simmons Natural Bodycare (www.simmonsnaturals.com) has announced that it will contribute a portion of its revenues to Heifer International, a charitable organization that fights hunger and poverty worldwide by giving livestock to impoverished farmers and training them to become self-reliant.
As a Village Builder business partner of Heifer, Simmons Natural Bodycare will contribute two percent of the retail price of its handmade soaps to Heifer over the next year. It will also invite customers to learn more about Heifer¹s work to end world hunger and poverty and protect the earth.
”Heifer requires its recipients to ŒPass on the Gift of their livestock’s offspring to others, and that’s the spirit in which we are lending our support,” said Dottie Simmons, President. “We feel a responsibility as a successful business to help those who are less fortunate, and we chose Heifer because it has a smart, sensible and effective approach to helping struggling families help themselves.”
Heifer Mission & Work Around the World
Heifer International has a unique and successful approach to ending hunger and poverty.
Heifer trains farmers in environmentally sound agricultural practices, uses trees to combat erosion, and bees and worms to increase crop production for long-term farming success. It teaches community groups how to do strategic planning and community development to improve local economies while encouraging gender equity, peace and the dignity of work.
Heifer stresses “passing on the gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring with others along with their knowledge, resources, and skills an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe. This simple idea of giving families a source of food and income rather than short-term relief caught on and has continued for 60 years. Today, millions of families in 115 countries have been given the gifts of self-reliance.
Milk, eggs, wool, draft power and other benefits from the animals provide families with food and income. Selected appropriately and managed well, animals improve nutrition and help families earn money for education, clothes, health care, better housing and starting a small business.
Heifer’s grassroots approach lets people and communities make their own decisions about how to improve their lives. As partners work together to overcome obstacles, they strengthen their communities and foster democracy.
By training partners in environmentally sound, sustainable agriculture practices, Heifer makes lasting change possible. At the heart of Heifer’s philosophy is the commitment families make to “pass on the gift,” by sharing one or more of their animal’s offspring with other families in need. Helping others ensures dignity and multiplies the benefits of the original gift from generation to generation.
For more information about Heifer International and being a Village Builder business partner, call 800-696-1918 or visit Heifer online at www.heifer.org.
Simmons Natural Bodycare is a natural partner for Heifer International as it embraces in deed and in philosophy the same ideals.
Since 1979, when they began crafting pure soaps, they always chose quality oils, vitamin E, and other ingredients for their simple natural benefits.
But what they make is only half the story. They believe, practice, and promote a philosophy of sustainablility. This encompasses the use of renewable energy sources and ingredients to create their products, doing it in a way, which does not degrade the environment or cause harm to its inhabitants.
About Simmons Natural Bodycare
Simmons Natural Bodycare, located in the rural mountains of Northern California, is powered exclusively by self-generated electricity from the sun, wind, and rain. They contribute to the local community and the world community through volunteer work and donations, and support other small businesses through our catalog and website bringing into action the beliefs upon which Simmons Natural Bodycare was founded. To place an order or receive more information, contact them at 707-777-1920 or see them on the web at www.simmonsnaturals.com.
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