When covid-19 hit, Paul Mitchell, the company John Paul co-founded in 1980, quickly moved to support and protect salon owners and hairdressers while re-directing manufacturing to make essential items. We worked with leaders in the Navajo Nation and through their organizations Dezbah’s Elders and Kids, Divest Invest Protect and Hózhó2O to get hand sanitizer directly to people of the Navajo Nation. Hand washing is critical to stop the spread of coronavirus, but water is often hard to come by on Native lands. We hope this small donation has big impact and helps keep people safe.
Some of the most valuable work we do is simply connecting people to each other, whether that’s a business looking to donate product, a person wanting to volunteer or two people with a similar vision of how to transform their community. Money is so important to achieving goals, but there is nothing quite as inspiring and hopeful as the good work of people and local leaders looking out for their communities. As John Paul says, it will take we the people helping each other out to shift the energy on this planet. We are grateful for the leadership and dedication of these Navajo leaders as well as the generosity of companies like Paul Mitchell.