easyJet customers invited to donate their spare change onboard as airline partners with UNICEF to save children’s lives
2012-07-30 — /travelprnews.com/ — At a time when UK holiday makers are escaping one of the wettest English summers in history, easyJet, the UK’s largest airline and operator of Europe’s No. 1 air transport network, has joined forces with UNICEF to give sun seekers the chance to help save children’s lives every time they fly with easyJet this summer.
Throughout July, August and September, across easyJet’s pan-European network of 600 routes across 30 countries, passengers can make a difference for children simply by putting their spare change or notes into ‘Change for Good’ pouches on leaving the airline’s 1,200+ flights each day.
The money donated will fund UNICEF’s work to help save children’s lives around the world. Every day four thousand children die from deadly, but easily preventable, diseases such as measles, polio or malaria.
- Just £1 could help provide vaccines needed to protect a child from six deadly diseases.
- £4 of spare change dropped into a ‘Change for Good’ pouch could help to buy a specially treated mosquito net, protecting a child and their family from malaria for up to five years.
The easyJet and UNICEF partnership, ‘Change for Good’, will run on all easyJet flights during the peak summer and winter seasons. The initiative is part of UNICEF’s global ‘Change for Good’ programme, which has raised £53 million for the world’s most vulnerable children in partnership with leading airlines across the globe.
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For further information please contact:
easyJet: Andrew McConnell, 01582 525252 or email: press.office@easyJet.com
UNICEF: Liz Jones, Media Manager, 020 7375 6030 or email: lizj@unicef.org.uk
Notes to Editors
About easyJet:
easyJet operates Europe’s No. 1 air transport network with a leading presence on Europe’s top 100 routes and at Europe’s 50 largest airports.
easyJet flies on more than 600 routes between over 130 airports in over 30 countries. More than 300 million Europeans live within one hour’s drive of an easyJet airport, more than any other airline.
The airline takes sustainability seriously. easyJet invests in the latest technology, operates efficiently and fills most of its seats which means that an easyJet passenger’s carbon footprint is 22 per cent less than a passenger on a traditional airline, flying the same aircraft on the same route.
About UNICEF:
UNICEF is the world’s leading organization working for children and their rights in more than 190 countries. As champion of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF works to help every child realise their full potential. Together with partners, UNICEF delivers health care, nutrition, education and protection to children in urgent need, while working with governments to ensure they deliver on their promise to protect and promote the rights of every child. UNICEF relies entirely on voluntary donations from individuals, businesses, foundations, and governments, and is not funded by the UN budget. For more information, please visit www.unicef.org.uk
About ‘Change for Good’:
‘Change for Good’ is UNICEF’s global initiative run in partnership with leading airlines all over the world. The airline partners include: American Airlines, Qantas and Cathay Pacific as well as easyJet in the UK. In total, ‘Change for Good’ globally has raised over £53 million for UNICEF’s work with children.
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