Pass It On?

This Thursday 8th March is International Women's Day (IWD) 2012, a day when women from all over the world unite to celebrate female empowerment: girl power at its very best if you like. Its a day for tackling issues which women face in their lives.

One such issue is domestic violence which affects 1 in 4 women here in the UK. Aleisha Dickson, herself  a woman who has personally been affected by domestic violence during her childhood, has teamed up with Avon to become its Beauty and Empowerment Ambassador, and on IWD she will help launch the cosmetics new Empowerment necklace and Pass It On campaign.

Empowerment necklace

The necklace only costs £3.50 and ALL the proceeds will go directly to Avon's charity partners Refuge and Women's Aid  to fund support services to women an children who have suffered from domestic violence. Avon has already donated £1 million just in the UK alone through sales from its Empowerment range of jewellery products which will help change lives. 

The necklace features a circular pendant which has been designed to represent a future; a future of possibility and hope for all women everywhere.

I have been sent an Empowerment necklace as I think it is for such a worthwhile cause. I have never been affected by domestic violence myself and feel very fortunate but the fact that 1 in every 4 women have is, I think, actually a very high statistic. When I think of all the fellow female bloggers and women I tweet with it makes me wonder if any of them are sufferers given this statistic. 

I want to help the Pass It On campaign via my blog and I have an idea. 

I am going to open up a linky and I will send this necklace onto another blogger and she needs to take a photo of herself wearing it and link the photo back here and then she needs to pass it on to another blogger who needs to do the same and so on. I am wondering how many link ups I could get by us all tagging each other .

 Would you join in and see how many women will Pass It On?
Its not a heavy necklace and box so you would only need to spend the amount of money it costs to post it to the next blogger.

Here is my photo

So who will be the first woman I can Pass It On too? 
Please leave a comment below if you would be willing to take part - I really hope you will take part and help raise awareness for such a great cause :)
Lets get some blogger girl power going!! xx

I was sent the necklace to use for this post. however, the idea to pass it on is my own and i think it could be a good one- as long as people join in of course!