We are high school students from Bergen County who met through Hana Mission, which is an organization that collects clothes to fundraise and help the people who suffer from substance use disorder in our community. We all watched a documentary that demonstrated how the massive clothing trashes are damaging the earth. We wanted to apply our knowledge to contribute to this problem. We want to do CPR on the dying clothes to revive them and make them useful again.
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Clothes Placed for Revival (CPR), is a group of dedicated individuals united through a common mission:
(1) Helping under-privileged members of the community receive adequate access to clothing,
(2) Reducing environmental damage caused by the mass production and disregard for recycling clothes.
Simultaneously addressing two critical issues presented to the present and future generations,
the CPR team closely works with local communities to maximize its impact to provide quality clothing
for those in need and increase transparency in clothing drives, in both proceeds and material distribution.
One of the CPR team’s partners is Hana Mission, a Christian non-profit organization in Paterson, NJ,
committed to addressing the needs of those coming from lower socio-economic backgrounds
through a multitude of projects (https://www.hanamission.org/).