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Building homes and hope in New Orleans |
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See how U.S. Mary Kay Inc. employees and independent sales force members are changing lives. |
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“This is our way of giving back. This is the ‘power of pink’ and we’re not afraid to get our hands dirty.”
-Jan Martino, Mary Kay Independent Future Executive Senior Sales Director and volunteer leader for the Mary Kay Habitat for Humanity® house in greater New Orleans.
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The “Power of Pink” is a force to be reckoned with — especially on the build site for a Habitat for Humanity® house in greater New Orleans.
That's where
members of the Mary Kay independent sales force living in the New Orleans area have gathered every Saturday since late October 2007 to help build a Habitat house sponsored by Mary Kay Inc.
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No one exudes that “power” and enthusiasm more than Mary Kay Independent Future Executive Senior Sales Director Jan Martino, who is leading the volunteer effort among her Independent Beauty Consultants. A New Orleans native, Martino has had her Mary Kay business for 26 years and saw first-hand the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “It was devastating. So many people lost so much. You couldn’t go anywhere in New Orleans without seeing and understanding the loss. So, this is our way of giving back. This is the ‘power of pink’ and we’re not afraid to get our hands dirty."
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Vincent Trouillier, a New Orleans native and Katrina survivor is buying the Habitat home for his family with an interest-free loan and working to build it. “We have faced so much horror through these difficult times,” Trouillier says. “We evacuated to Lafayette, Louisiana, when Katrina came ashore, and we didn’t have any idea what was in store for us. I am extremely grateful that Habitat for Humanity® has let me and my family have hope and dreams again.”
The Trouillier home is one of five Habitat for Humanity® houses sponsored by Mary Kay Inc. around the country since 2006. It is the second Habitat house built by volunteer members of the Mary Kay independent sales force.
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Jan Martino, her team of Independent Beauty Consultant volunteers and executives from Mary Kay Inc. will gather together in New Orleans in early 2008 to officially dedicate the house and hand over the keys.
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More Habitat for Humanity homes sponsored by Mary Kay Inc.
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As part of our efforts to change lives of women and children, we’re always looking for ways to help create a better quality of life for the communities in which we work and live. Recently, the Company joined forces with Habitat for Humanity® by sponsoring five houses to help five families become first-time homeowners.
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Mary Kay Inc. partnered with Dallas-area Habitat for Humanity® in 2007 to build a Habitat home in Dallas for Gloria Robertson, a mother of two. |
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As part of a more than $1 million commitment to aid survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Mary Kay Inc. first joined forces with Habitat for Humanity® in 2006. Mary Kay employees, during working hours, built a Habitat home in seven days for a family in Dallas who lost everything in the Hurricane Katrina storm. (See video for details.)
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Mary Kay independent sales force members volunteered and built a Habitat home, sponsored by Mary Kay Inc., in Mobile, Alabama, for a family who survived Hurricane Katrina.
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Mary Kay Inc. also sponsored a home for a survivor family in Gray, Louisiana, and committed to sponsor a home in New Orleans when the local Habitat for Humanity® affiliate is ready to build. |
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Through the work of Habitat and partnering companies like Mary Kay Inc., thousands of low-income families have found new hope in the form of new homes. To date, Habitat for Humanity® has built more than 200,000 houses, sheltering more than 1 million people in more than 3,000 communities worldwide.
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