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SEE + BE SEEN FITE FOR WOMEN. Dermalogica Founder and Chief Visionary, Jane Wurwand, along with several of her Manhattan-based staff members, gathered on International Women’s Day to support the brand’s philanthropic arm, Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship (FITE). Dermalogica team members joined thousands of New Yorkers who marched from Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to Times Square to fight for women’s rights. Earlier that morning, Dermalogica co-hosted an intimate brunch with the United Nations Foundation (UNF) at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City to discuss solutions on achieving gender equality worldwide. The event welcomed 30 high-level women from the UN, UN Women, UNF, corporations, entrepreneurs and media. Amina Mohammed (top-left photo, third from right), United Nations special advisor on post-2015 development planning, attended the event as a special guest. HEALTHY KIDS, HEALTHY FUTURE. As part of Budapest, Hungary where Koronczay received treatment for Éminence Organic Skin Care’s Éminence Kids initiative, childhood leukemia. “Organic Days,” a weekly delivery of locally President Boldijarre Koronczay, along with 30 Éminence sourced organic produce, was introduced at the Semmelweis staff volunteers, helped prepare and cook 720 servings of soup Medical University’s Tuzolto Street Children Clinic No 2 in made from organic, nonGMO and locally sourced ingredients, for Hungary, along with the donation of two mobile IV chemo- the families at the Ronald McDonald House BC in Vancouver, therapy machines, which provided the children the mobility Canada. The next day, another 20 volunteers served the hot, to interact with family and friends. Following the success of nutritious soups, organic juices and fresh bread, and stocked the Éminence Kids in Hungary, Éminence has continued these freezers with leftovers. efforts in North America by introducing “Organic Days” to The Éminence Kids initiative was first introduced in 32 PULSE n June 2015 children staying at the Ronald McDonald House BC.