Ride By The Seat Of No Pants

4 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ealing
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Ealing

Sunday 16th March

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Care4Calais' West London HQ was quieter than normal today. There were bags of donations to be sorted and a smaller than usual number of new clothing requests to be bagged and tagged.

Sevan teamed up with Michelle on her first visit to Care4Calais. They were given bags and suitcases full of clothes that were all jumbled together and were asked to put them in some sort of order. There were plenty of warm jacket donations as the weather had been promising to improve and as usual, plenty of clothes with no or confusing sizing. Some undersized crop tops and shorts were unsuitable, so put to one side for charity donation, while a pair of oversized mens trousers marked size 26 could fit a Sevan in each leg. They were eventually placed in the 2XL box.

In another room, Kash and Steph were preparing standard clothing packs for men, except they didn't have any underwear. The packs that was, not the GoodGymers 🤭. They did what they could, leaving the packs to be stock(ing)ed up later. Kash and Steph then moved on to preparing requests, including a few complex ones that led Kash into the garden to hunt for micro scooters. She returned victorious, having found a pink scooter for a young girl and two more for some older boys.

To complete today's work, everyone took a pile of the newly sorted donations and stored them in a box in the stock room, matching the clothing type and size. Those will be ready to prepare more clothing packs at GoodGym's next session with Care4Calais next week.


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Care4Calais - Clothing for asylum seekers and refugees
Sorting clothes to provide packs to individuals in the local community who often arrive with nothing

Care4Calais is a volunteer run charity delivering essential aid and support to refugees living in the UK, Northern France and Belgium. We believe in a fair and tolerant British society and advocate for a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards refugees. Operating year round, our focus is to provide warm clothing, bedding, food and medical assistance to people in desperate need. We also provide social support and interaction, including language lessons and sports and music workshops.

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