Happy Mother's Day

By Deb Baxter - Values Coordinator

The Body Shop Australia would like to wish all Mum's a very Happy Mother's Day.

Through the Mother's Day Gift Giving Programme , The Body Shop are proud to have distributed more than 4,500 individual products, to over 60 organisations supporting Mum's and children escaping domestic and family violence this Mother's Day. In States such as NSW, these organisations support up to 60 individual refuges. An alarming indication of just how big an issue domestic and family violence is.

The Body Shop hopes these products will help to make Mother's Day for these Mum's, a little brighter.

~ Deb

Tearing Down The Wall

By Adam Valvasori - Values Manager




















Grant Beckwith - TBS's IT Guru- as featured on Amnesty International's homepage... tearing down the Great Firewall of China.

Sophie Peer, Amnesty's Uncensor Campaign Coordinator, wrote in an email:

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! The TBS crew have been fantastic. Fun, engaging, professional, punctual, good monkeys and just generally great! I had a ball with them on day one and two in Melbourne and know that our staff and volunteers have really appreciated TBS help thus far. I think we have captured Grant's mood fairly accurately here!!! I hope that everyone who has been involved to date has enjoyed themselves and now see themselves as a human rights defender! We look forward to meeting more TBS people around the country.

Yours truly doing the patented "Censorship = Bad, Dance" with the TBS Geelong crew who were going above and beyond by volunteering in their own time.

I know this kind of thing is not that mainstream - especially the fact that companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are in bed with the Chinese Government by helping them to patrol and censor the Internet in China. But my take home from interacting with 'the public' was that people know very little about Human Rights or Human Rights abuses around the world full stop. What are they teaching in schools these days?!

Everyone should take 10 minutes to read The Declaration of Human Rights

If you would like to help Amnesty International take a stand and Defend Human Rights in China... find out when their Great Firewall is coming to your city or town and volunteer your services!


~Adam

Cheesecake anyone?

By Steph Maule, PR Co-ordinator





















Lunching on Saturday with four girlfriends, I got particularly disgruntled when two friends started debating how many laps of a nearby running track they’d need to endure in order to enjoy the delicious looking slice of cheesecake sitting in front of them. I immediately scolded my friends for even mentioning that we should feel guilty for enjoying such a wonderful treat.

So, you can imagine my sheer delight when I heard that today is International No Diet Day (INDD) - the annual celebration of body acceptance and diversity.

INDD originated in 1992, when British Feminist - Mary Evans Young - decided to fight the diet industry and raise awareness of the dangers of punitive and restrictive dieting, and to encourage people to accept their natural body shape. INDD has since been celebrated by body liberation, anti-diet, and other activists, groups and individuals around the world wanting to empower people of all sizes.

So today of all days, don’t count your calorie intake, enjoy a regular (rather than skinny!) latte, stop wishing you had Giselle’s washboard stomach, and LOVE the body you’ve been blessed with!

Cheesecake anyone?

For more information, visit The Butterfly Foundation http://www.thebutterflyfoundation.org.au/

- Steph