GoodGym Ealing's latest visit to Care 4 Calais had them working through a familiar set of tasks, which they've been building experience in over the past few months. By the end of the task:

• 🛍️ A stack of clothing bags were created, ready for delivery to Care 4 Calais' beneficiaries;
• 👞👚 -> 📦 Shoes and women's clothes donations had been sorted and stored;
• 👟👟 2 identical right shoes were found. Only the task owner's sharp eyes realised that it was a wrong pair of shoes

Earlier, the team had helped bring new, very cold, donations inside to sort through. Once they (the clothes) defrosted, Kash, Paul and Mohamed got to work, first sizing the shoes that had been received, then separating the clothes into men's, women's and children's piles. The majority of the new clothes were for women which Mohamed and Kash stayed to do the next round of sorting on. T-shirts, legs and warm top categories were broken down by sizes from XS to XL. There were donations of Indian clothes as well as some from a mosque, so Kash learned from Mohamed how to identify abayas from non-abayas.

In the packing area, Paul and Sevan had created new standard packs for small and large men. No new packs for medium men today as clothes stocks in their size were low. The pair then moved on to fulfilling specific requests, with Sevan hunting in the stock rooms for children's school clothes for the first time. The completed bundles of clothes kept increasing and Paul neatly organised them by destination.

Any unsorted donations were left for the next volunteers to pick up and clothes that wouldn't be needed for a few months were packed into suitcases to go into storage. Kash was sent away with the suitcases. She may or may not make it out of storage for the next group run to Walpole Park on Tuesday.