Planet Aid UK would help out
We met with the carers in the rural communities close to the Hope Centre, and heard about their daily struggle to help the sick and the orphaned. They were a group of strong, warm-hearted women who take care of the orphans and the aids victims in their villages as volunteers.
On the last day of our visit we also learnt about the tree-planting action in Zimbabwe and we decided that Planet Aid UK would help out by raisingsome extra funds.
Natural resources are never “on sale”
Here are a few facts to keep in mind: it takes 250 gallons of water to grow cotton for one shirt. Although conventionally grown cotton occupies only about 3 percent of the available farmland globally, it demands an enormous quantity of chemicals to produce — about 20 percent of all poisonous pesticides and 22 percent of toxic herbicides currently used on the planet go to cotton production.
Obviously, making something as simple as a T-shirt requires considerable natural resources, fuel, machinery, time, and manpower. Yet because we live in a culture of “disposable fashion,” we often don’t think twice about throwing away an unwanted shirt. We simply get rid of it because it’s out of style, no longer fits, or we just got tired of it. But by recycling we can give old clothes a new life, and become active protectors of the environment as well.
Today, Planet Aid is a highly efficient nonprofit business, recycling millions of pounds of used clothing nationwide every year. Throughout its growth, the organization has remained true to its nonprofit ideals, donating the surplus funds it generates by selling used clothing to support sustainable development around the globe. The donations have gone a long way toward helping the poor find and grasp opportunities that lead to lasting improvements and a better quality of life. Planet Aid–supported projects have focused on strengthening primary education, enhancing smallholder farmer production, increasing HIV awareness and treatment, improving rural infrastructure and sanitation, as well as providing food aid to the hungry.
Planet Aid is a longstanding member of the international development organization Humana People to People (HPP). HPP is a federation comprised of 32 national member organizations working in 43 countries.
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