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For Zara Boyd, a JustWorld Ambassador since 2021, an internship with Equipad provided the perfect opportunity to combine her love of horses, design expertise, and passion for giving back.
During the internship, Zara, who’s finishing her junior year at Parsons School of Design in New York City, helped create a saddle pad made of recycled water bottles. The pad, called “My Boy Blue,” was inspired by her horse “Oreo,” a Hanoverian with a wall eye who shows under the name of Monks Diarados Boy.
“I designed it with sparkle and the exact same colors as my horse’s eye, because he’s really special and cool,” Zara said.
When Equipad offered her a portion of the sales, Zara asked if the money could go to JustWorld instead.
“[Equipad is] a good company, making sustainable products, and they care about the ethics side of riding and fashion,” Zara said.
The first 100 orders of the pad also came with stickers Zara designed, with sayings on them about being lucky and grateful.
“I have a necklace that says ‘lucky,’ and I had a bracelet that said ‘grateful,’” Zara said. “No matter how bad your day is, we’re lucky to be around horses.”
As a fashion and design student, she enjoyed seeing the process of the product development, design and marketing. “The pad sold out really quickly; it was really successful,” she said.
And she presented JustWorld with a check for $1,200.
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