Earth Day, April 22nd, 2020 marks 50 years since the first celebration in 1970!!! Many charity groups will host recycle events and other volunteer activities across the United States. Of course, we at Global Paint for Charity are excited to announce we will be one of those groups participating! Please join Global Paint for Charity, Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful, the Solid Waste Management Division, and its partners on Saturday, May 2, 2020, from 9:00 am- 12 pm at Gwinnett County Fairgrounds (2405 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Lawrenceville, GA 30045-9340, United States). This year's Earth Day event is entirely FREE to the public! It will include free paint collection (limit of 10 gallons and buckets per vehicle), free paper shredding (limit five of boxes), electronics, tires, toner/printer cartridges collection and more. Also, bring your old sneakers and gently used clothing to be donated to those in need or to be recycled into new products. Residents will enjoy free kids' activities, touch-a-truck, and will have the opportunity to meet their haulers.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
We expect to recycle over 6000 gallons of paint in just three hours. If you are looking for some community service hours or an exciting activity to make a difference on Earth Day this year, this is the place to be!! While the event will be from 9 am-noon, volunteers are needed from 7:30 am to 1 pm to help set-up and unload the vehicles, and from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm to help unload the paint donation at Global Paint’s Center. If you arrive later than 8 AM, you will not be able to volunteer, so if you want to help with this opportunity, please arrive early. The minimum commitment is 5 hours and all volunteers will receive a free Earth Day T-shirt, gloves, and a safety vest. To sign up as a volunteer for this event, please visit Volunteer – Global Paint for Charity or http://www.volunteergwinnett.net/.
As usual, bring the whole family out from 9 am-12 pm to play around every public and safety vehicle from the county, including fire trucks, dump trucks, motorcycles, school buses, Gwinnett County Fire Department vehicles, and Police Trucks. Also, there will be face painting and arts, balloon animals, and more for the kids. Parents and kids of all ages can enjoy learning about Global Paint for Charity, Gwinnett County's solid waste programs, and other recycling initiatives in our community. You will have plenty of time to meet and chat with our Board members, volunteers, students, city officials, and supporters of our humble cause.
The Earth Day celebration is an event observed annually in April. The history of this day can be traced all the way back to April 22, 1970. It is a day held to demonstrate and promote environmental awareness and calls for the protection of our beautiful planet. Although it was originally foreseen as an American event, today, Earth Day is celebrated in more than 193 countries around the world each year.
Please check our TAKE ACTION page for information about organizing a Paint Drive in your community, or to learn more visit www.globalpaints.org -à TAKE ACTION!! All your donations are tax-deductible.
Background of Global Paint for Charity
At Global Paint for Charity, we believe a coating of paint on the walls can change and impact people's lives for years to come. We know that many people cannot afford to paint their houses due to poverty or constant natural disasters every year. According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 billion families and seniors are living in destitute homes with harmful germs and deadly bacteria on the interior and exterior surfaces, and more than 170 million children have never had access to a painted classroom. Nearly 80% of the third worlds’ structures face a dreary reality or unpainted walls due to lack of resources such as paint. Whereas in the U.S., home is also where the multitudinous waste starts. Over 150 million gallons of paints end up as waste every year. According to the paint industry sources, each resident in the United States has over 10 gallons of unwanted paint in their basements and garages. That's enough paint to stretch up to reach the International Space Station and return to earth ten times per day for 10 million years. Or, if the paint doesn’t get disposed of in the right way, it can lead to serious environmental problems.
Global Paint for Charity provides a streamlined service that solves both of these issues. We, not only work together with businesses, corporations, households, and paint manufacturers in a collective effort to recycle post-consumer paint, but our technology also provides other organizations, and individuals access to some top paint brands include Benjamin Moore, PPG, Valspar, Sherwin Williams, Glidden, Rodda, Miller, Behr, ACE Hardware, etc. to assist their local housing rehabilitation projects in low economic communities and through our outstanding and visionary leadership, as many as 5000 to 6000 gallons paint have been shipped at a time. More than 320,000 tons of discarded paints have been removed from the waste stream, recycled, then shipped to 42 countries in West Africa, the Caribbean, Central & South America, targeted areas in the Middle East, and targeted cities right here in the United States. The fair market value of our distributed product is 8.5 million U.S. dollars.
The goal is to use colors to help beautify the local structures, boost people's confidence and happiness, inspire the youths, change lives, and assist the vulnerable individuals in reaching their full potential. Everyone wins!!!
At Global Paint, we believe that everyone, no matter their circumstances, deserves to live in a beautiful and colorful environment. Increasing access to paint in underserved communities could improve the local economic power for millions of vulnerable families and uplift the spirit of the less fortunate individuals for many years to come.
Global Paint for Charity is a 501 (c) 3 Non-governmental organization, your monetary contributions, and donations are tax-deductible.
Please check our TAKE ACTION page for information about organizing a Paint Drive in your community, or to learn more visit Global Paint for Charity
Rony Delgarde,
Founder/President
