Find Out More About Clothing Donation PA

By Christopher Cooper


Developed countries have been greatly known for helping the less fortunate countries, the so called third world countries; they help the countries in different perspectives including helping them build infrastructure, importing modern technology, loans, grants and donations. The donations include house hold items and clothes. These clothing donation PA greatly aid the less fortunate especially clothes which is a major basic commodity for people.

Agencies which collect these clothing are led by greed-driven people who instead of giving them to the less fortunate in the country they sell these cloths. African market is the most eyed source of income to these money lovers who sell them at a low cost but sell as much tones as possible hence bringing forth reputable profits. The reason behind this is because many Africans live a hand to mouth lifestyle hence cannot afford new shipped clothes which are costly.

When these cloths land in Africa they are later sold at a higher price from which they are shipped with though affordable to the man on the street. The cloths sell like hot cakes since everyone likes to have a portion of the cheap clothes which they acquire in markets called bend-over markets. These are the kind of markets where the donated garments are casted on the ground and people select when they bend to pick the desired item.

The business brings a lot of demerits as compared to the merits to these developed countries though income tax is collected by the revenue authorities. Workers who earn a living by working in the textile industries end up having no jobs and the small scale producers market is lost since the market is flooded by cheap imported clothes. The economy is greatly affected by these market forces hence leading to its decline.

Africa being a continent blessed with natural resources and rich flora and fauna which help the continent to have a good flow of foreign currency. There are major commodities which are exported like coffee, tea and so on though there are also minor commodities which scales the economy rate at a higher level, the items include locally made clothes which are beautifully designed and attracts everyones eyes. They include the Maasai-Shukas which normally are popular in Kenya, this patrol community has the pride of their clothes.

Workers who are directly employed by the textile industries either directly or indirectly end up having no job since the market for the local clothes is diminishing at a very fast rate. When the loss is incurred they end up being beggars and robbers. They become a security threat to the country since many cases occur of people getting robbed.

Firms which donate these clothes are like Salvation Army make things clear in their website that they do sell these clothes for the good will. Money collected in this trade does help greatly for the smooth running of the organization. It is used to pay the workers and help in shipping of the clothes to Africa and other continents.

Developing countries government should come up with rules to scrap exit of local garments. This includes reducing the tax rate of the local industries and taxing the imported cloths. These steps will help the country conquer in matters of exporting local clothes and economy will incline.




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