wurld - change our world

Well here’s our first press release, read it and learn a bit more about wurld. Then forward it on to all your media friends, let’s get the word about wurld out!

Here’s a website, Scoop.co.nz, that has posted it, we have also pasted it below to read.

Saving the ‘wurld’ one drop at a time

‘wurld’ is a new brand of bottled water with a difference – 100% of the profit funds clean water projects in the developing world.

The company’s vision is to be much more than just a bottled water company. “wurld water offers consumers the chance to switch to a bottled water brand where the destination of profits is life changing,” says ‘wurld’ co-founder Jared Honore. “Currently 1 in 6 people in the world do not have access to clean water, we want to change that!”

‘wurld’ has launched at North Shore’s Christmas Wonderland event which runs until Sunday 6th December, where they are an event sponsor and are also selling their new water to event goers. (www.christmaswonderland.org.nz)

‘wurld’ founders, Jared and Ruth Honore, returned from London in 2008, (more…)

We are up and running…and this is our stall

Our launch event is Christmas Wonderland.

It is an amazing trail of over 150 stunningly lit and decorated trees, making it New Zealand’s largest indoor Christmas forest. This event runs for 10 days and promises you a festive occasion your whole family will enjoy!

We are proud to be supplying water to event, and sponsoring a tree on the trail. We’re parked inside the queue marquee and in the cafe, so be sure to come and say hello to us and buy a bottle!

wurld funded this project just before the tragic tsunami in October, so we were very concerned for the safety of those involved when we heard the news.

The village men were lucky because they were to be working on the project when the tsunami hit, but everyone got out in time after the earthquake. The project had been started but fortunately not destroyed. There was some minor damage to a rock wall the men had built, but they’ve fixed that and are keeping going. The supplies were all in a secure location and not washed away.

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To kick off, our first ‘day 5′ event will be a beach clean up at Long Bay reserve on Auckland’s North Shore, on January the 5th, 2010.

This is holiday time in NZ, and so wanted to link in with the theme of summer. We’ll provide the water, you provide a couple of hours of your time and together we’ll keep one of Auckland’s beach gems looking great.

We”ll update details closer to the time, so check back, or sign up to our newsletter or follow us and we’ll contact you.