Patrons for Life wins award from Yves Rocher Foundation in Paris.

Through Eva Arbat, now its most famous integrant, Patrons for Life Movement, received in Madrid (Spain) the award called “Women’s Land” of the Yves Rocher Foundation from Paris, France. Yves Rocher was the first manufacturer of cosmetics made out of plants in the world, has over 40 years of existence and has a foundation dedicated to support environmental actions, including carbon neutralization.

The first-place prize was handled to Eva by Jacques Rocher. This stage of the awards included the 3 best stories submitted by women from Spain. Eva told the story of the work she develops with the team of Patrons for Life Movement at the Itacaré-Serra Grande Environmental Protection Area and also “the bridge” she built between the work in Brazil and work of Patrons for Life team of La Cellera de Ter in Catalonia (Spain).

The Yves Rocher Foundation has been rewarding this kind of work since 2001. The new thing about the award this year was that, in addition to the votes of Yves Rocher evaluation commission members, the winners were also chosen through Internet voting, and, the best of all, Eva and Patrons for Life’s work was the most voted by Internet users worldwide !