Teens for Jeans Helps Outfit the Homeless

Teens across the country collected a record-breaking 1 million jeans for homeless youth in just one month.

For the fifth year running, Do Something (dot) org partnered with retailer Aeropostale, and a few young celebrities, to execute its Teens for Jeans campaign, a program that galvanizes young people to collect jeans for people their age living on the streets.

The program has distributed 2.5 million pairs since it was first established.

"It blows my mind to see how many teens care so much about helping other teens with this campaign," DoSomething.org Chief Marketing Officer Aria Finger said in a press release. "Our members really did an amazing job this year!"

The campaign hit the milestone with the help of 1,000 stores, 12,000 schools and 125,000 teens cleaned out their closets for the cause.

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World Clothes Line: a mission to clothe the world

 

Basic human needs include food, water, and shelter, but clothing matters, too.  A young woman, Mallory Brown, realized the import of proper clothing after encountering truly impoverished people in Laos.  Clothing protects a body from sun and wind burn, frost bite, and insect bites.  A habit many of us take for granted, changing into clean clothes every day promotes good health by preventing infection, chafing, skin disorders, and the spreading of viruses.

"However, in cases of extreme poverty, clothing is often one of the first needs to be ignored. Statistically, more than one billion people in the world live on less than one dollar a day. Almost 2.7 billion people (that's 40% of our population) survive on less than two dollars per day. In such circumstances, daily necessities like food and water take top priority. Clothing, which can be reworn, therefore is reworn. Day after day. After day..."  --World Clothes Line

Brown decided to found a clothing company with a "buy one, give one free" business model. While World Clothes Line is a for-profit venture, profit is not its mission.  Success is measured in philanthropy.