Walmart is on a mission to empower women together, and we think it’s awesome!
As part of a corporate commitment to empower women worldwide in hopes to build better lives for themselves and their families, Walmart has announced the launch of something fabulous, Empowering Women Together, a place online (on Empowering Women Together on Walmart.com) that gives shoppers the chance to purchase unique and interesting products while supporting small women-owned businesses from around the world. How awesome is that!? We think it’s pretty amazing that a company as big as Walmart would take the time to help out small women-owned businesses!
With each purchase that consumers make they are lifting and empowering those women behind the products, making it possible for them to create new jobs and improve both their own lives as well as the lives of their family and others in their communities. Walmart is such a huge company that it will allow women around the world who may never have been given the opportunity to showcase and sell their products, the chance to find customers and sell their products.
When they first launch, Walmart’s Facebook page it is going to offer more than 200 items from 19 different businesses in nine different countries. This is simply amazing! The products will range from jewelry from Peru, Rwanda, Kenya and the U.S., to home accessories from Rwanda and Haiti, paper mache from Haiti, apparel and accessories from Rwanada, and there will even be things such as iPad and laptop covers from Cambodia and Nepal. Coffee and tea sets from around the world and made in America, as well as specialty foods from the US and Canada can be found on the site. With such a large selection of products consumers are bound to find something that pleases them. Why not think of purchasing your next gift from Empowering Women Together so that you might be a part of such a wonderful and exciting event?
Walmart has made plans for a 5-year commitment that will run through 2016 to source $20 billion from women-owned businesses and they hope to do this with their Empowering Women Together program.
Be sure to stay up to date on sales and special announcements by following Walmart’s Facebook page, Walmart’s Twitter Account, and Walmart’s Pinterest Board.
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