On the 16th March, five superwomen from Slovakia met in order to fulfill a challenging task. “Be the change”, that was what it sounded like. Due to their fierceness and determination, they couldn´t been stopped.
They took their responsibility and used their superpowers to fight the overconsumption, inadequate working conditions in developing countries, and usage of single-use plastic.
This is them, they are so cool. They might seem happy, but that is just due to the fact, they can enjoy summer in March. In the reality, however, their eyes sparkle with boldness and bravery.
From the left:
Lenka is a young girl that never leaves any trash on the ground. Literally.
Strengths: She believes that the most important thing is to behave nicely towards each other, support each other and share our success but also our failures, because sharing is caring and it is unhealthy to keep feelings to eat us inside out.
Weaknesses: Unknown
Katarína is on her way to reduce her plastic consumption to a minimum. And, hell yeah, she is proud of it.
Strengths: She hates injustice and single-use plastic. Therefore, she buys only fair trade products and glass jars. Simple as that.
Weaknesses: She loves traveling.
Adrienn is always the best clothing in the room. Spoil alert: She sews her own clothes from second-hand pieces.
Strengths: She is very keen on motivating and inspiring her surroundings and believes that is the only way to achieve any change.
Weaknesses: Serious addiction to pastel de nata.
Dominika tries her best to achieve anything that enters her mind.
Strengths: Kindness, honesty and love. She is strong enough to handle almost every hard moment in her life and has experienced a lot in different areas and wants to spread the word further.
Weaknesses: Plastic bottles.
Tereza will make you live sustainably only by her look. Because if you do not, you will not be friends with her. And everyone wants to be friends with her.
Strengths: She definitely is the change. She volunteers, boycotts plastic and her cosmetic bag containing only plastic-free products.
Weaknesses: Might scare you sometimes.
Even before having been initiated into fulfilling the task, they have had a lot of work saving our world.
Lenka: I was and still am using textile tissues, am buying things in second-hand shops and using a menstrual cup and other reusable things. While brushing my teeth, I am not letting the water run, and I am bringing my own bags and also bags for bread when I go to shops. And I am growing my own onion, from onions that are not good for consumption anymore.
Katarína: I am trying to reduce my waste using all the zero waste replacements possible. I even buy cosmetic products only in glass jars made from natural ingredients. I stopped buying fast fashion clothes and buy only second hand. Additionally, I started to buy local food and chocolate labeled with fair trade.
Adrienn: I was, and still am, trying to reduce my waste production, use fewer chemicals, eat less meat (only chicken from my grandfather's farm).
Dominika: As a volunteer, I was working for a short period in a non-profit organization called VIBE, which is focused on the art in the field of recycling. This NGO has organized some projects also with the aim of expressing yourself and learning tolerance and cultural understanding. Besides that, I always recycle, trying to reuse some materials, buying clothes mostly from second-hands shops, having my own bottle for water and trying to be more conscious about my environment.
Tereza: I became a vegetarian a long time ago because meat consumption is one of the biggest contributors to environmental damage. I am also trying to live sustainably using zero waste replacement.
