Clothing NZ Children in Poverty

Clothing NZ Children in Poverty

Over 270,000 Kiwi children live in poverty. They can often go without basic human needs such as adequate clothing and Care Share Wear (CSW) works every day to address this very real problem. Now they need help from the community to continue with this vital work.

CSW gives our kids the chance to help other children less fortunate than themselves by donating their surplus to needs, good quality clothing that the CSW team collects, sorts and redistributes to children in need. Beba McLean, General Manager at CSW Wellington says,

‘Through the donation of a mini wardrobe’s worth of clothing to children who have been identified as in need, we hope to ease the financial pressures on families who are finding it difficult to make ends meet.’

The CSW initiative has three main benefits/objectives:
- To help children and their families by providing them with good quality clothing, to assist in maintaining good physical and mental wellbeing which can potentially have a positive impact on a child’s ability to learn.
- To educate children about sharing, having empathy for others and about the wider community in which they live, which in turn builds stronger communities.
- To reduce waste and to reuse what resources we have potentially reducing the amount of waste going into landfill.

Care Share Wear Wellington operates through the generous support of volunteers who donate their time and various skills to the project. Whilst the operational costs are very low, CSW does require some funding to cover necessities such as rent, petrol vouchers for collections and deliveries, stationary, cornstarch bags for packing. CSW Wellington is a registered charity and has set up a ‘Give a Little’ account run through the Telecom Foundation and kindly requests that if people would like to support the continuation of their good work that they donate to them through there:

http://www.givealittle.co.nz/org/cswwgtn

For further information or to offer support in other forms please contact them through their facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/careshareandwearwellington

Care Share Wear (CSW) is an organisation that was launched in Taranaki in 2011 to provide children in need with good quality, pre loved clothing. CSW Wellington launched at the end of 2012.

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