(Burnaby, BC, Canada): Educate a girl. Teach a village. Change a nation. Three powerful objectives established by AG Hair Cosmetics to help change the future of African girls. The mission of AG’s SCHOOL: girls Project is to provide education to young girls in impoverished African countries and give them the tools they need to make a difference.
“Educating women is one the fastest, most effective ways of promoting economic development and the key to ending poverty and injustice in underdeveloped countries,” says Lotte Davis, AG’s CEO and Co-Founder. “As the co-founder of a business in a female-dominated industry, I’ve always known the difference women can make, but it wasn’t until I met these women and heard their stories that I fully understood the enormous change women are capable of.”
Motivated by this very powerful fact, last year AG partnered with salons and distributors to raise $250,000 and as such, dramatically improved the learning and living conditions for 250 girls at the Atanga Girls School in Uganda.
This year, under the AG Foundation Women Leading Change, the company will renovate its third school for girls, the Ganze Girls School in Kenya. Through the sale of its 2nd annual School:girls pack, AG will again donate $6 of every pack sold to facilitating improvements in the school in the form of four new classrooms, three new science labs, a dormitory, library, two washing facilities and a dining hall. Currently, the school has just three dilapidated classrooms and two latrines for over 300 girls.
The pack, featuring AG’s tech two protein-enriched shampoo and condi- tioner light protein-enriched conditioner will be available in salons across North America on May 1, 2010 for $19.99.
Use. Love. Repeat. It’s a philosophy AG Hair Cosmetics’ customers have been following since 1989, and for good reason. Founded by Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year John and Lotte Davis, AG is one of the leading manufacturers of salon hair care products in Canada and is sold in more than 11,000 salons internationally. You can find AG’s more than 45 products in salons by visiting aghaircosmetics.com.