The True Cost of Disposable Fashion

Alternatives to Donation Bins:

You may also want to reconsider where you haul your discarded clothes off to.

If you have good-quality, gently-used clothing, consider donating them to places such as:

Dress for Success and Career Gear (professional attire for the disadvantaged)

Cinderella Project and Fairy godmothers Inc. (prom dresses for those who cannot afford one)

Your local church charity that may distribute them to the needy within your community

Local women’s shelters and crisis centers (call first to find out what kind of donations they accept)

The Big Brother/Big Sister Foundation

Brides Across America (provides free second-hand wedding gowns to military brides)

Read entire article here: What Actually Happens to Your Donated Clothing?

Open your heart
Open feeling
Open understanding
Set aside the reason
And let the sun shine, hidden in your interior

Open old memory
Hidden in the dirt
In plants, under fire, under water
Open your heart
Open feeling
Open understanding
Set aside the reason
And let the sun shine, hidden in your interior

It’s time already, it’s now
Open your heart
And remember how the spirit heals
As love heals
As the tree blossoms and life endures
That to get to God
We must learn to be human

Ábrete corazón
Ábrete sentimiento
Ábrete entendimiento
Deja a un lado la razón
Y deja brillar el sol, escondido en tu interior

Ábrete memoria antigua
Escondida en la tierra
En las plantas, bajo el fuego, bajo el agua
Ábrete corazón
Ábrete sentimiento
Ábrete entendimiento
Deja a un lado la razón
Y deja brillar el sol, escondido en tu interior

Es tiempo ya, ya es ahora
Ábrete corazón
Y recuerda como el espíritu cura
Como el amor sana
Como el árbol florece y la vida perdura
Que para llegar a Dios
Hay que aprender a ser humano

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