Disney's Friends for Change

Disney Friends For Change: Project Green is an environmental initiative of The Walt Disney Company. With Friends For Change Disney Stars are committed to the environment and show their fans how easy it can be to stand up for our planet. International Friends For Change Ambassador is Selena Gomez, German Ambassador Konstantin Rethwisch, singer of the band Stanfour.

The project

In the project " Disney Friends For Change " is about to sensitize children and young people for the issue of environmental protection and to show them how they can protect the environment with small changes in behavior. The operator may submit under www.disney.de / friends forch promise is how they want to change their everyday behavior in the future, eg that they separate the trash or turn off the lights when leaving the room. As part of the initiative has, among others, the opportunity to vote on how Disney will distribute one million U.S. dollars in environmental projects around the world.

In the U.S., Friends For Change successfully launched in summer 2009, in Germany in late October 2010. For the project to make famous Disney stars like Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez and many more strong. Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas recorded the song "Make a Wave " for the initiative.

Donate

Disney donates every three months U.S. $ 250,000 to various environmental organizations. The participants at Friends For Change vote on how the money should be distributed across the organizations. So far, the Bat Conservation International, with U.S. $ 100,000 have been supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Jane Goodall Institute at 50,000 U.S. dollars. The Nature Conservancy and Fauna and Flora International received 25,000 U.S. dollars.