From clothes to cash
Girls' College receives income for its outreach projects through the Clothes to Cash Exchange.
DURBAN Girls' College recently received a cheque for more than R6000 from the Clothes to Cash Exchange (C2CX).
C2CX is a social entrepreneurial organisation which runs clothing drives at schools and businesses.
The staff collect the clothes and sort them into good as new and not quite usable piles, making up 20kg bales which are used to start small micro-organisations with unemployed women and women who are at home with disabled children in rural communities.
The women are taught basic cash flow and business skills and are given the clothes to sell from home.
With the unusable clothes, C2CX partners with the 1000 Hills community organisations and local NPOs. The clothes are given to the women to repair and sell or used to clothe the women who need help.
Durban Girls' College pupils were given a week to collect old clothes to donate to C2CX and managed to collect 1.6 tons of clothes. The school was paid R5 per kilogram which will go towards its outreach projects. Prizes were given to the top collector, Yasti Subramoney, who collected 10 bags of clothes, the top class, which was a Grade 2 class, and this class teacher, Thandi Zondo. Yasti will now go into a national competition.
