Strength in Partnership!

June was a wild-ride for Zharity!

Our team had a number of successfully collaborated events with Google during the company’s yearly volunteering drive.

Zharity’s Collection Team helped coordinate a company-wide collection for Caritas, which collects second-hand clothes for disaster aid, as well as for people in need in Switzerland. Certain clothes are also sold through Caritas second-hand stores as a fundraiser for Caritas aid programming.

Zharity also helped host a Room to Read charity event at Children First, a bilingual school in Zürich. Room to Read is an international organization that focuses on literacy and gender equality in education to transform the lives of millions of children in low-income countries. Our volunteers manned the grills and it was a wonderful family day with stories, games, crafts for kids, and amazing food.

Zharity Earth hosted four hugely successful plogging events in June! With the help some dedicated Zharity members and 42 volunteers we cleaned up different parts of Zürich from city center to the outskirts, Ütliberg, and along the Limmat in Dietikon. The verdict was that no matter where you go, in two hours a team of 8-10 people will be able to fill up at least three 35 liter Züribags with garbage. At one location we managed to pick up three times as much! Plogging is the hottest new fitness trend! It is a combination of jogging with picking up litter (Swedish: plocka upp). Plogging started as an organised activity in Sweden sometime in 2016 and spread to other countries following increased concern about plastic pollution.

It was a great month for Zharity and we want to thank everyone who helped out and showed up! We couldn’t do it without you!