Personal shopping experience for the less fortunate
Not only members of Wings of Inspiration Care Centre but other care centres as well showed up to have a personal shopping experience.
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Homeless and less fortunate members of the community had a chance to walk through a makeshift store this past weekend and pick out clothes for themselves.
Wings of Inspiration Care Centre in partnership with Horizon View Shopping Centre gave numerous members of the centre a shopping experience to remember during their Threads Up initiative on January 27.
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Holly Nemathithi, from the shopping centre, explained people often take shopping for granted, going to a store and picking out what they want. She mentioned the purpose of the initiative is to give these community members the chance to have a dignified shopping experience where they can choose what they want and in which size, instead of just receiving a bag with clothes where they have to take what they get.
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“We wanted to give them the freedom of choice. Everyone is so excited for the experience,” stated Holly.
She noted aside from clothing, each person also received toiletries. There was also a section for children, which included toys. People could also choose books and shoes and even winter clothes. She noted they received quite a few pieces of men’s clothing which they are very grateful for as it is rather rare to have men’s clothing donated.
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Each shopper also got a personal shopper to walk through the store with them and pick out what they wanted.
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She added that they took everyone around the store a second time so they can have another chance at picking something they like and everything that was left over will be distributed to the various Wings of Inspiration Care Centres.
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She said that they received more than 1 000 pieces of clothing – all donated by members of the community. They also had a soup kitchen where the people could get chicken stew with rice and a cold drink with something sweet.