Thank you for another successful Global Citizen Earth Day Celebration!

The Earth Day 2015 Recycling Celebration took place on Saturday, April 18th the only day of the week that it wasn't raining, it was mostly cloudy and partial sunny but no rain, it was fantastic. Held at Coolray Field, Home of the Gwinnett Braves in Lawrenceville, the 3 hours recycling event was filled with several activities including paper shredding, electronics, tires, cartridges, old sneakers recycling, also playground for kids, and hundred donors, city officials, partners and volunteers came out to celebrate with us. Global Paint for Charity (GPC) was committed to recycling only paint products in partnership with the Gwinnett County Solid Waste. More than 2600 gallons of paint were properly disposed. The majority of the donors, who participated in the Earth Day event, were eager to learn that their unwanted paint donations will be re-used and re-purposed to transform many communities and family homes around the world, and enlightened about our tax deductible advantages for their donation. Many felt that it is quite significant and rewarding to donate their used paint to us and plan to let their neighbors know about our programs. One donor took some brochures, and said he would make copies and pass them around/ to every Home Depot and Sherwin Williams retail stores in his area.

The Earth Day Celebration provided the opportunity for the Global Paint team members to work closely with staff from the Gwinnett County Solid Waste & Recovered Materials Division and its major partners on raising awareness of recycling in ways to help preserve our beautiful planet. Our thanks to the greater Gwinnett County residences and businesses for their wonderful support of our 4th-ever Earth Day Celebration, the Solid Waste staffs and volunteers for their irreplaceable partnership and continued support. A special thank you goes out to all Gwinnett County officials who volunteered to help load all donated containers of paint on our truck, also to all Gwinnett County Police Officers who made sure the event ran smoothly, safely and promptly.

Global paint for Charity was founded in 2010; today it is one of the largest paint recycling programs in the nation and the first public non-profit providers of free paint and hosting free paint projects in the world. Since 2011, we shipped as many as 500-to-6000 gallons of paint at a time for projects in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda ,Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, ElSalvador, Mexico, Dominican Republic, also in Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, New Orleans and Chicago. Last year, Global paint for Charity volunteers painted 459 family homes, 40 schools and orphanages. We assisted 45 local homeowners and homeless shelters in the Atlanta areas and recycled over 130,000 gallons of paint from businesses and residences in the U.S. These numbers add up to $10,790,989 saved in local government budget to properly manage left over paint disposal each year, and created a total monetary impact of $2, 400,000 in donation.

Additional information, including the mission and vision statements, pictures, descriptions of the free paint programs, volunteer and partnership opportunities, and overall of the organization’s impacts around the world is available on the official website and social media sites: www.globalpaits.org, Facebook and Twitter, /globalpaints. Or contact us at info@globalpaints.org. Please remember that when you choose to donate to Global Paint for Charity, you are changing lives and covering the world with colors, hope and happiness.

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Here are our pictures, please enjoy! If you couldn’t make it to the Earth Day, you can still donate on our Website at http://globalpaints.org/donate.php or email us at info@globalpaints.org for any questions and supports.

Rony Delgarde