Helping Out In Swimwear

by Owen Jones⁽¹⁸⁹⁾ Red Star

http://the-real-way.com

If you are interested in charity work, then you will understand how hard it is to come up with new ideas for helping individuals or collecting money, especially if you are on 'the committee'.

Not everyone agrees with charity work, imagining that governments ought to take on the function of charity worker, but no one can refute that governments are not doing enough, so individuals and charitable organizations have to step in.

As a supporter or as a charity worker, you obviously have the right to decide whom you support. A hundred years ago, middle class charity workers tried to help the local poor; then after the Second World War, charities began looking further afield and Africa and other places became the focus of their aid.

Nowadays, the cycle has turned full circle for a lot of individuals and they are beginning to look to the local poor again. The old expression that 'Charity Begins At Home' seems to be ringing true with people again. So what can you do to assist the local poor?

The YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, USA, has come up with a novel concept. They discovered that many individuals bought at least one swimming suit each year. Those individuals might hang on to them until the next year, if they especially liked them, but they would still purchase a new swimming costume every year.

The thing is, that individuals hang onto their old swimming costumes until one day, they find them at the back of the drawer and it occurs to them to throw them out. Occasionally, for ladies, the top half will break - a strap or the clasp - and they are left with a pair of bottoms. Men tend to hang onto their bathers for years.

At the YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, they decided to initiate a campaign to collect all the old swimming costumes, jumble them all up and invite parents and kids in to select a 'new' swimming costume.

Many of the kids that came, particularly the girls, had never had a swimming costume before - they had always worn cut down jeans and a t-shirt.

Now, there are a number of ways you could go about this, when you have collected your boxes of swimming costumes. You could try to make sets for girls - tops and bottoms that match - or you can just throw them all together and let individuals have the fun of matching up a two article swimming suit.

If you are trying to raise money for something like school books or a new church roof, then you could make a fixed charge per swim suit. However, if you are attempting to attract adults or kids to your establishment - say a Sunday School or a local community centre - you could place a promotional leaflet in with each costume as it is bagged.

You could also have volunteers standing around prepared to give fashion advice or you could sell tea or coffee and homemade cakes. Whichever way you look at it, this is a very clever idea for helping people get an affordable/free swimming costume and get your idea across.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now involved with Strapless Swimming Costumes. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Swimwear For Big Busts.

Article submitted Monday, August 08, 2011 & read 77 times.

Owen Jones writes on many subjects and is currently running several websites. He was born in Wales but now lives in northern, rural Thailand.

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