Reddam House and the Clothes to Cash Exchange joined forces on Mandela Day to collect clothing for a worthwhile cause
The latter’s Clothes 2 Good programme is a national programme that recycles clothes to do good.
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They work in conjunction with schools, businesses and NGOs to collect the clothing. The big difference is, there are three beneficiaries for each piece of collected clothing – not just one. The programme pays the collecting organisation R5 per usable kilogram that they collect. The organisation can use these funds for their own outreach. Clothes 2 Good then uses the clothing to empower those less privileged by creating jobs for people (including people with disabilities) to sort and bale the clothing, and by helping budding entrepreneurs to sell the clothing in their own communities.
“So, a Spiderman outfit [arrived at] Reddam today that a mum had bought for R350 [at a major retailer],” said Jessie Naidoo, managing director of the Clothes for Good Programme.
“It’ s been recycled here in one of these bags and will end up at one of our micro businesses for about R5 and there is a little guy out there in Atteridgeville, whose mother will buy it for R15,” said Baidoo.
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By structuring their programme in this fashion, generates an income throughout the value cycle to those who need it.
All the funds raised from this joint initiative with Reddam House will be donated to Rifilwe Community and Angels Baby Sanctuary, empowering children at risk and people with disabilities.
Details: https://www.c2cx.co.za/
