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Re: clothes collections
We often get a bag asking for clothes 'or a small donation' to send a child in the Gambia to school. They also send bumf stating that you could sponsor a childs education in the Gambia for £25 a week.
We go there every year and sponsor a child, this costs £25 - £50 PER YEAR!! The clothes that are donated are not given to the people of these countries, they are sold to shops, who then sell them on.
We take clothes and so on for people we know, I buy up lots of stuff in the Asda sale, and try to fill a suitcase which we pass on to friends for their children and also to the Headmaster of the school, who gives clothes/shoes as prizes at end of term, to encourage parents to keep sending their kids to school, as many will keep them off and send them to work.
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