Got a little bag sent home. Please fill it up with clothes, the school will get a few pence per kilo, the clothes will go to the third world and underdeveloped countries.
All well and good you think, but my husband (kenyan) told me years ago about these companies.
These clothes that we give are not always given to people in need, they are often sold to them. The company makes a profit and the local businesses lose custom, which in such countries makes the difference between eating or not.
So by donating clothes, I am actually helping to ruin the business of someone in the third world, AND lining the pockets of a company that pretends to be helping people in the third world
But the school gets a few quid.
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HecatesTwopenceworth · 17/06/2009 17:24
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