It is Avon's 125th birthday, to mark the occasion a couple of weeks ago, Reese Witherspoon - not just an award-winning actress but also an Avon Global Ambassador - joined Avon Chairman and CEO Andrea Jung to launch the company’s 125th Anniversary year with a celebration in Atlanta, Georgia, for more than 5,000 Avon Representatives. The event was part of the 16-city “Avon Believe World Tour” which is celebrating the company’s heritage and belief in its mission to empower women.
Throughout 2011, the tour will be visiting 16 cities across the globe, namely Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Istanbul, New York, Chicago, Mexico City, Warsaw, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Manila, Shanghai, New Delhi, Johannesburg and ... Birmingham ! Special guests such as Fergie, Patrick Dempsey, Suze Orman, Zoe Saldana and Yasmin Le Bon are expected to make appearances at many of the events.
A new $1 million Avon Global Believe Fund has also been launched, to support women’s domestic violence shelters and agencies in each of the 16 cities on the tour. In partnership with the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), the Avon Foundation aims to draw attention to the alarming lack of adequate services for women and children who are victims of domestic violence, as well as set up an international network of non-profit organisation to help them.
I am one of the lucky ones to receive a ticket and will be joining over 4,000 other UK Representatives in Birmingham this month.
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