New donation opportunity!

A very generous family from Radnor House School in Sevenoaks have donated a collection bin to receive clothing, bags, belts, and shoes from the public. The proceeds, thanks to Zenith Textiles Ltd., will all go to Project Le Monde for the purpose of funding our projects in Uganda. Thank you very much!

Once the clothing arrives at Zenith Textiles Ltd it is processed and sorted before being exported (mainly to Africa) where it ends up in markets. They think it’s important that the clothing stays in rotation as long as it’s useable, as £140 million worth of clothing goes to the landfill in the UK each year. It’s their #1 priority to divert clothing away from landfills and incinerators so they can do their part to protect the earth.

All about the clothes bank:

Clean clothes, bags, belts, and paired shoes are collected every week from the clothes bank in the car park. Everything then goes back to the huge warehouse of Zenith Textiles where the items are sorted.

At first sorting, the clothes are sorted into:

-Summer clothes to be reused in Africa

-Winter Clothes to be re-used in Europe

-Clothes and shoes to be recycled

-Waste (less than 1% is thrown away)

At the second sorting:

The clothes and shoes are sorted into age and size. Anything that is worn out or just not useable will be recycled.

Please remember that you and your family should also donate clean re-useable old underwear! Do not forget that it is needed in overseas markets.

The clothes are then wrapped into ‘bales’. All the bales are put into a metal container for international shipping. The containers arrive at their destination and are shipped by lorry to be re-used. Clothes are sold at markets in Africa and Europe, but we have already been paid by the kilo for this – and all the money that they have been paid goes to Project Le Monde

So instead of throwing old items away to go into a rubbish dump where those things can take a long time to decompose, they are re-used.

Zenith Textiles earn money per kilo of items they collect, and this money will be paid to Project Le Monde for the education of children in Uganda. This could be in the region of £200 per month, depending on how many donations are made.

The children in Uganda benefit more from the money to be used for food, the market garden, and school than they do from re-using our old clothes which are very expensive to ship.

Everyone at Radnor House Uganda is very thankful for the donations!