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Inspired by The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Warner Bros. Pictures and Goodwill
Industries Partner for Nationwide Pants Donation Drive
April 28, 2005 |
Burbank, CA — Friendship, empowerment and self-sufficiency are among the themes of the upcoming film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
People across North America are being urged to “Join the Sisterhood” by
participating in a unique nationwide project of donating their used
jeans to Goodwill Industries - the world's leading nonprofit provider
of education, training and career services for people with
disabilities, welfare recipients and other job seekers.
Inspired
by the jeans featured in the film, each pair of pants collected at
locations in 60 markets nationwide such as select Goodwill Industries
stores, Color Me Mine and Levi's stores will be donated to Goodwill
Industries who, in turn, will sell the pants earning revenues to fund
its job training and other career services to prepare people for job
success. As of Monday, May 2, people can go to www.sisterhoodofthetravelingpants.com or www.goodwill.org to find their local collection locations.
Each
person donating a pair of jeans will receive a special “Join The
Sisterhood” bracelet in recognition of their contribution, symbolizing
their allegiance to one another -- in friendship and philanthropy.
Goodwill
was founded in 1902 in Boston by Rev. Edgar J. Helms, a Methodist
minister. Helms collected used household goods and clothing in
wealthier areas of the city, then trained and hired people to repair
and sell the used goods. The system worked, and the Goodwill philosophy
of “a hand up, not a hand out” was born. Today, Goodwill Industries is
a $2.4 billion international network of 207 independent,
community-based nonprofit organizations serving more than 700,000
people in the U.S. Canada and 22 other countries.
Based on Ann
Brashares' best-selling novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is
about a special summer in the lives of four lifelong friends who are
separated for the first time. On a shopping trip, they find a pair of
thrift-shop jeans that fits each of them perfectly and decide to use
these pants as a way of keeping in touch over the months ahead, each
one wearing the jeans for a week to see what luck they bring her before
sending them on to the next. Though miles apart, the four friends still
experience life, love and loss together in a summer they'll never
forget.
Alcon Entertainment presents The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,
opening nationwide June 1, 2005. The film will be distributed
worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment
Company. It is rated PG by the MPAA for “thematic elements, some
sensuality and language.”
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