GoldenCosmetica donates 1% of purchases (VAT excluded) to NGOs aimed to help the Third World and the animals. These NGOs are mentioned below.

Vijay Foundation Trust

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The plight of abandoned children on the streets of Kadapa, a drought and a faction ridden district in South India, motivated a few like-minded citizens of the town to open a children’s home. The aim was to bring up a few such children as our own giving them a home, an education and most importantly of all, love.

Vijay Foundation Trust (VFT) was thus formed in 1992 and it established Aarti Home to care for such abandoned children. Aarti home has been the primary focus of all VFT activities ever since.

Today, they have 80 children under their care. Furthermore, for the past 10 years they have been working towards reducing the causes of child abandonment, especially amongst girls. They have initiated several vocational training and awareness building programmes for women in the district. Educational programmes focusing on attaining job skills have been started for the youth and women. Today the work of VFT impacts more than 20,000 women and children in South India.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

www.peta.org
www.petaenespanol.com

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) with more than 1.8 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world.

PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. They also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other “pests” and the abuse of backyard dogs.

PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.

Transforma Projects, financed by Intermón Oxfam

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www.intermonoxfam.org/transforma

Transforma are projects funds, financed by Intermón Oxfam through donations made by companies, which make affordable initiatives of local organizations and producing groups from developing countries.

Transforma includes a projects ensemble that covers many of the necessities of communities in developing countries: agriculture, education, microloans, support to the women. With regular contributions made by companies, the fund will rise until it reaches 250,000 € or more annually.

Thanks to the steady involvement of many companies, Transforma can carry out the initiatives of the solidarity fund and replace them for new ones.

Evolución

www.evolucion.org.es

The aims of Evolución are:

• Abandoned or mistreated animal collection.
• Care of such animals through check-ups and veterinary treatment and their maintenance at animal shelters and the subsequent follow-up to confirm they are treated well and their adaptation after their adoption.
• Projects to help animal shelters that are in a difficult situation due to the overloading with animals they shelter.
• Project to save Spanish greyhounds.
• Promotion and boost of projects to improve the protection of domestic animals in Spain.

Madrid Felina

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www.madridfelina.com

Madrid Felina is aimed to create an animal shelter for cats in Madrid, where they can find a chance that many times they cannot find, and to try to have a city with saved and happy cats, at peace with their habitat and the citizens.

Its prime aims are:

• To find aid to create the Madrid Felina Animal Shelter.
• To manage with the exit of the biggest amount of cats they can from the Animal Protection Centre of Madrid, where hundred of unlucky cats end their days.
• To rescue cats from abandonment, shelter them, give them veterinary assistance and try to find a home for mistreated and abandoned cats in Madrid. More than 300 cats are rescued annually by Madrid Felina, being able to offer most of them the chance of a decent life.
• To promote animal adoption. They can carry on saving cats only through adoptions.
• To promote and carry out sterilization campaigns of homeless cats in Madrid, to avoid their extermination.
• To collaborate with the Government on any initiative that entails a better life for this animals in Madrid, offering alternatives to the slaughter or the abandonment.
• To report any mistreatment of animals they hear about.
• To promote among children love for animals.