Did you Know ?
After most Disasters, donated clothing arrives in semi trucks, it takes 20 people
3 whole days to unload, sort, and prepare 1 truckload. And usually 1/2 of the things are useless. This is called the "Second Disaster". (see pictures below)
Why not give them an Outfit to Go® ? It is the Best Solution!!
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"Second Disaster"
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- 1997 After the Red River Flood donated clothing was piled with a front-end loader, filled a hangar at the Grand Forks Airport to a height of 10 feet.
- 2004 More than a year after the Pigeon River flood, mounds of donated clothing were still warehoused in vacant buildings and tractor-trailers across the county.
2004 Tsunami Indian Ocean - Clothes were donated by the ship load and dumped on beaches. 
- 2005 After Hurricane Katrina piles of donated clothing were moldering along roadsides & parking lots in Coastal Mississippi.
- 2007 After the Greensburg, KS tornado, many frustrated residents waited at temporary shelters, where they had to scour piles of donated clothes trying to find a clean change of clothing.
- 2008 After Hurricane Ike some Evacuees were wearing the only clothes they owned and did not have access to laundry facilities within shelters. Authorities struggled to find clothes for Evacuees, some of whom had worn the same items for 5 days.
2010 After the Haiti Earthquake, one U.S. town collected Huge amounts of donated clothing to be shipped to Haiti, over 3 tractor trailer loads. 
