International Women’s Day
LIZZIE CARR AND PLASTIC PATROL
Our friend Lizzie Carr, founder of Plastic Patrol has been shortlisted for the Stylist Remarkable Women Award 2020.
Lizzie is a cancer survivor and discovered paddleboarding as a low-impact way of exercising during her recovery. While paddleboarding through the waterways of London she became acutely aware of the environmental state of these canals which were infested with plastic pollution and waste, she says “I was using the waterways as a place to restore my health, but they were in a worse condition than I was.” To raise awareness via social media while also compiling research as she paddled 400 miles from Godalming to the Lake District to find evidence of plastic pollution. Over 22 days she took 3,000 photos, and in each image there were hundreds of pieces of rubbish.
Last week Lizzie was invited to 10 Downing Street to receive the Prime Minister’s Points of Light award for her work in tackling plastic pollution over the last five years. Her dedicated work has attracted much needed attention from our government on environmental issues.
Using our Cause2Create network we helped Lizzie with a new visual identity and website for her brilliant initiative that has traversed the world’s inland waterways, collecting valuable data and clearing them of plastic debris before it has a chance to enter our oceans.
RWANDAN WOMENS NETWORK
Rwanda Women’s Network is a humanitarian, non-profit making, non-governmental organization dedicated to promotion and improvement of the socio-economic welfare of women and their communities in Rwanda. Back in November they featured in National Geographic Magazine as part of the publications year long coverage of women’s lives and the massive changes underway for women and girls across the globe.
Rwanda has moved from a nation that treated women like property, whose chief function was to have children, to one that constitutionally mandates that at least 30 percent of government positions are occupied by women. Since 2003 Rwanda has consistently had the highest female representation, proportionally, of parliamentarians in the world — currently 61 percent in the lower house. Four of the nation’s seven supreme court justices are women, including the deputy chief justice.*
Our work in Rwanda continues on through our client Girl Effect and their youth brand Ni Nyampinga. We have a dear love for the country and its people and hope to make our third visit there soon.
We created and produced the Rwanda Women’s Network brief using our Cause2Create network collaborating with Paris based illustrator Marilou Rabourdin.
https://www.behance.net/Marilou
https://www.rwandawomennetwork.org/
- Quoted from National Geographic Magazine November 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/10/how-women-are-remaking-rwanda-feature/
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