Together we build a better future. ROC YOUR PLANET is a foundation striving for a better, cleaner and greener future.
Each quarter one of our employees will select three different good causes. All of our newsletter subscribers will quarterly get the opportunity to vote for their favourite good cause. The full amount raised is donated to the organization of choice and further the team member gets to hand over the check.
Our mission is to help non-profit organizations worldwide with the focus on making the world a better place. ROC YOUR PLANET foundation helps these organizations through donations mainly raised by VONROC newsletter subscriptions. For more information about that, please visit www.vonroc.com/roc-your-planet.
For years, the ROC YOUR PLANET foundation has been supporting local organizations that focus on making the world a cleaner and greener place. And with great succes!
In the past, one or two colleagues from VONROC decided which organization was going to receive a donation… but that’s changed!
From now on, we’re not just helping one, but three good causes, and our customers get to decide how we will divide the donation!
In this first round Rewilding Europe, GreenKayak and Arnika where nominated. (Reed more about these beautiful organizations on their websites).
And now the results are in! This is how our customers voted for the ROC YOUR PLANET donation:
To all customers: Thank you for voting – Together we build our future!
We make the world better…TOGETHER.
The next ROC YOUR PLANET donation goes to Romania and CERT – Community Emergency Response Team! The great amount of € 1000 has been donated to this organization!
CERT are a group of passionate volunteers who believe in the power of good. Using this power, they provide help where needed within five main areas of activity, forming five strong pillars for society. A lot good things have already been achieved!
Community: CERT helps renovating schools and houses and provides help in the medical field. They purchased an ambulance for hard-to-reach areas, and facilitate acces to basic medical services in collaboration with volunteer doctors.
– Social: For those in need of food and clothes, CERT already distributed over 3000 food packages and 200 m3 of clothes and shoes!
– Environment: With 14 afforestation projects and 10.000 volunteers involved, CERT planted 170.000 trees on 36 hectares!
– Education: CERT provides bikes and backpacks for kids in rural/mountain areas where schools aren’t naturally accessible. Doing so, they manage to boost school attendance.
– Rescue: CERT helps in the search of missing people, provides assistance during events, and helps getting drivers back on the road after an accident.
With such a wide variety of projects and countless efforts, CERT makes sure everyone benefits, from immediate help to long-lasting environmental projects.
CERT certainly makes the world a safer, better and greener place for everyone around, and ROC YOUR PLANET is very honored to help. Only together, we can build a better future!
Want to know more about CERT? Visit https://cert-transilvania.ro/
The next ROC YOUR PLANET donation goes to Sweden and CleanSea! A wonderfull amount of € 3650 has been donated to this organization!
CleanSea’s mission is to make an impact for marine life and shape a clean future for our oceans, and they do it by removing trash from the ocean along Sweden’s west coast. They do coastal cleanups, collect plastic floating in marinas and sometimes dive to pull trash from the ocean floor.
CleanSea is founded by two teenagers from Sweden, to stop plastic pollution from harming the oceans. The founders, Lukas and Mikaela Julher always had a close connection to the ocean. Since a young age they spent their summer vacations at the beach. In the past years they had seen a threat to the beautiful oceans they love so much. The vast amounts of plastic in the ocean and along the coastlines is harming marine life. Having seen this problem, they wanted to take action, which is why they started CleanSea. So far CleanSea has removed over 20.000 kilos of trash from the ocean in Bohuslän, Sweden!
Knowing that CleanSea is striving for a better world, we are proud to support their projects and developments! Only together, we can build a better future!
Want to know more about CleanSea and their projects? Visit www.cleansea.co
The people of Ukraine urgently need our help. Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced and are still looking for a place to stay. Families are separated from each other. They constantly live in fear and uncertainty but together we can help by providing them with food, shelter, medical care and clean drinking water. ROC YOUR PLANET has therefore decided to donate an amount of €2000 to GIRO555.
GIRO555 is organisation in which 11 cooperating aid organisations join forces under the name GIRO555. Together they are working toward helping the people inside Ukraine and the people who had to flee their country. We hope that our donation can help many people to get safe and to stay healthy.
Together we want to create a better and safer world.
Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans. With the developments of the world and countries, this issue is rather increasing than decreasing. That is why VONROC’s CEO Rick Rosberg together with ROC YOUR PLANET foundation has decided to donate €5000 to The Ocean CleanUp!
We wanted to end 2021 and start 2022 with the biggest donation we’ve made so far, and giving that to an organisation we truly believe is making an impact on the world and its ocean!
The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organisation developing and scaling technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. To achieve their objective, they work on a combination of closing the source and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean and doesn’t go away by itself. Their aim is to clean up 90% of the floating ocean pollution.
The Ocean Cleanup is developing cleanup systems that can clean up the floating plastics caught swirling in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Also they have created the first scalable solution to efficiently intercept plastic in rivers before it reaches the oceans. By tackling 1000 rivers around the world, they aim to halt 80% of riverine plastic from entering the oceans in five years from rollout.
Knowing that The Ocean CleanUp is striving for a better world, we are proud to support their projects and developments! Only together, we can build a better future!
The next ROC YOUR PLANET donation goes to Italy and Youth4Planet! A great amount of €1500 has been donated to this organization!
Youth4Planet is a non-profit organization made up of citizens who care about environmental protection in all its forms, quality of life, and a fairer, more just and inclusive society. They state; “We have based our mission on scientific environmentalism, collecting thousands of data on our ecosystem from below, which form the basis of every complaint and proposal. For more than 40 years we have been fighting for a better world, fighting against pollution, illegality and injustice for beauty, protection and a better quality of life. We have won many battles. New challenges await us and we are needed more and more. But to continue to be us, we need YOU.”
Fighting together for a better and cleaner planet is central to ROC YOUR PLANET’s vision, knowing that Youth4Planet strive for the same we are proud to support them for their actions and projects!
Want to know more about them and what they do? Visit www.youth4planet.legambiente.it
Our third donation has been made! ROC YOU PLANET proudly announce a donation of 2200 EURO to the Plastic Soup Foundation!
The Plastic Soup Foundation’s slogan states “No plastic in our water or our bodies”.
Their main focus lays on preventing plastic from ending up in the environment, share knowledge about the health risks related to plastic and achieve absolute reduction in production and use of plastic.
Why did we choose to donate to them? What the Plastic Soup Foundation strives for goes hand-in-hand with Roc Your Planet’s mission. Only together can we create a better, cleaner and greener world.
The Plastic Soup Foundation has already completed projects such as setting up the very first congress about how plastic effects our health, they’ve convinced over 445 cosmetics brands to stop using plastic microbeads and they’ve set up over 2500 cleanup actions in the Netherlands.
Want to know more about them and their projects? Read more about all their fantastic projects at www.plasticsoupfoundation.org.
The second ROC YOUR PLANET donation goes to Commonland; we proudly announce a great donation to them of 1650 EUR!
Their mission states: “As initiator, catalyst and enabler of large-scale and long-term restoration initiatives, Commonland is on a mission to transform degraded landscapes into thriving ecosystems and communities based on sound business cases and aligned with international policies and guidelines”.
This project was chosen by the ROC YOUR PLANET team because, with its broad approach, Commonland not only has an eye for nature, but also for the economy and people. With the projects, Commonland strives to restore natural, social and financial capital and to give local communities new perspectives and inspiration.
A beautiful good cause, because Commonland does not only wish to recover nature and its ecological system, but also aims to promote the economy in the country (by creating jobs) and to ensure that people get in touch with each other (social recovery). In our opinion, these are not only important goals for ourselves, but also for our children, etc., who should be able to enjoy this planet after us.
Read more about Commonland and their projects here: www.commonland.com
The first ROC YOUR PLANET donation goes to JUSTDIGGIT. Their slogan states; “If we can warm up the earth, we can also cool it down”.
This project was chosen by the ROC YOUR PLANET team as JUSTDIGGIT are not only trying to cool down the earth, they are also trying to make the life better for farmers in Africa.
This goes well in line with the slogan from ROC YOUR PLANET; “Together we can build a better future” because not only are we taking care of our earth, we are also taking care and helping the people.
We are proud to announce that a nice amount of 2000 EUR was donated to the organization JUSTDIGGIT.
Justdiggit makes dry land green again by inspiring and activating farmers in Africa, positively impacting climate change, nature and people. Degraded landscapes are restored by combining traditional techniques with new technology and a strong communication approach. Together with our partners, we create the Regreen Revolution, a grassroots movement, based on our learnings and best practices, powered by our network.
Read more about JUSTDIGGIT and their projects here: www.justdiggit.org
Donating to ROC YOUR PLANET means you’re supporting local projects with the focus on a better world.
Would you like to raise your helping hand?
To make a donation, please transfer the money to Stichting Roc Your Planet, IBAN: NL33 RABO 0366 1071 43.
If you wish to donate to a specific project, please let us know in the description. Many thanks from us and the people we are able to help.
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