I. Attention Getter: The weather is getting chilly and you start switching up your summer clothing to winter clothing. During the process, you realize some pieces of clothing are small, getting old, out of trend, or you simply don’t like it anymore. You pick out the ones that you plan to no longer wear and toss them right into the trash. When it comes to old clothing, most people throw away the clothing without realizing how one piece of clothing can greatly benefit someone in need. K.I.D.S, Kids in Distressed Situations, is an organization that delivers clothing, accessories, shoes, home furnishing, toys, books, school supplies, and other items that can help you make better use of your unwanted goods.
II. Credibility Statement: I, myself,
Relating to the Audience: According to Care2’s article about textile waste, “An average American throws away about 65 percent of clothing per year, and along with other textiles that gets thrown away, such as sheets and beddings, the total sums up to 14.3 million tons of textile waste per year.” (care2.com) There are many ways out there to help children across the world or even in your own neighborhood by donating your unwanted clothing, textiles, or materials through the organization, K.I.D.S.
IV. Thesis Statement (we should clearly hear your two MPs, the problem and your proposed solution for that problem) There are children in difficult situations where they cannot obtain proper apparel that will lead to absence in school and poor health. Your donation will not only help a child in need, but also save the
Supporting Point: To provide disaster relief, your donation of clothing will quickly and directly be distributed to children in need.
1. Any size and type of reusable clothing will be accepted.
2. Stick a post-it note on all your clothing on New Years Day; whenever you wear the piece of clothing, remove the post-it note and by the end of the year, if there are clothing with post-it notes attached, donate them to K.I.D.S for the children.
a. I know I have clothing that I haven’t worn in over year.
b. The clothing that has been sitting in my closet for over year can be a life changer and an opportunity for them to receive education.
B. Supporting Point: Variety of companies including Toys”R”Us, Michael Kors, and H&M are active donors of this organization and has received great recognition.
1. You can easily donate by filling out a form about your contact information and gift information by visiting K.I.D.S website’s “Donate a Product” page.
a. The contact information will ask for your name, address, and phone number.
b. The gift information will ask for the quantity of clothing you are donating, the type, the size, and retail value.
c. All donor information is kept confidential and will never share, sell, or give out your
People like to read about topics that they can relate to, especially because world poverty and starvation are still issues in many impoverished countries. Both of these articles stir up a lot of controversy between people in wealthier nations such as the United States because not everyone is going to be willing to donate ten to twenty percent of their yearly income. I personally believe that it is not my moral obligation to feed the poor and hungry because I have my own life and my loved ones to worry about. I’m not saying we shouldn’t give anything to people in need of help, but there’s just so much you can do to help other people. Singer mentions that organizations like UNICEF and Oxfam America collect money to save the lives of children. Let’s say you donate $200 to one of these organizations. You might be able to help one “sickly 2-year-old transform into a healthy 6-year-old” but what happens after that? Does the 6-year-old child continue to be healthy? What can you do to make sure that your initial donation of $200 benefits the child in the long run? I’m sure you don’t just want to temporarily help a child in need (Singer
Legal donations are monitored nation and world wide by governments and health care organizations. Donations can be made after death or while living by willing participants. Living donations are often by family members or friends of a suffering patient in need of a transplant. Although this is true, altruistic
Peace Craft donates to organizations that work to relieve children's suffering. Previous recipients have been local hospices and meal programs, The Peace Abbey, Kobe Earthquake fund, NONA in Bosnia, Kosovo Refugee Aid, Amahoro in Rwanda, AIMS Hospital in India, the Mennonite Central Committee Afghan Refugee Program, and Women for Women International.
anyone who is able to aid the poor ought to donate in order to help
Did you have a cup of coffee today? Or maybe you went shopping for that new shirt for the summer? Your money could be going to a better cause. Of the 7.15 billion people on Earth today, approximately 2.4 billion people live on less than two dollars and day, and 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day. More than eight-hundred people go to bed hungry, and more than one million people do not have access to clean drinking water. The amazing stat is that over eighteen thousand children die per day from diseases that are preventable. Kids die from a multitude of cause such as diarrhea, malaria, malnutrition, and disease. (Abbate, Global Poverty, 2014) Each could be prevented with the money you spent on that nonessential item for yourself. Most people do not seem to do this because of the out of sight out of mind principle. Since we never get to see how our aid actually helps those across the world, individuals are less inclined to help. In his article ,“The Singer Solution to World Poverty” (Landau, 2012) Peter Singer provides a unique argument in that he believes that we are no different than a murderer because we had the capability to stop it and didn’t do so. We have the ability to give what we essentially waste to maximize the happiness of another person and reduce poverty around the world. There are many charities out there, that can take the little money that we have or need to give, and can distribute it to help a magnitude of people worldwide. In this paper, I am arguing that we should give what money we can to relief and aid organizations in order to reduce global poverty because it is our duty to maximize the happiness around us.
In society today, the clothing that someone wears is basically a billboard for his or her personal, or family's financial situation. For children in public schools, fitting in with the popular, or most fashionable people is probably the most important thing to them. When children are preoccupied wi...
Giving to others through humanitarian projects is not only inclusive of providing monetary solutions for food. Philosophies and intention to reach specific goals are also associated with the needs of others. The Hunger Project is designed with the central goal of eradicating poverty. However, it is found that this is not done only by feeding the poor, but instead through empowerment initiatives that allow others to change their lives. When looking at the approach used to The Hunger Project, it can be seen that the ability to provide empowerment to others will assist in changing lives through donations. The impact which is made by making a donation creates an initiative not only through the power of changing lives of those in need. It also alters the socio political landscape and the global society at large. This impact is one which can redefine the overall functions in the globe, specifically by eradicating poverty.
...d up in Salvation Army bins. The U.S. textile recycling industry enables Africans to dress well for very little money. In 2003, used clothing was by far America’s largest export to Tanzania, and it ranked fourth worldwide as a customer for America’s castoffs, with competition from countries such as Beijing, and the Republic of the Congo.”
Additionally the author brings up an interesting analogy about this situation, he writes, “…if I am walking past a shallow pond and see a child drowning in it, I ought to wade in and pull the child out…” (Singer 332). Singer continues and says although that would cause his clothes to get dirty, it wouldn’t matter because he would have prevented a very bad thing from occurring. This analogy is significant because when it boils down to it, other needy nations clearly can’t sustain themselves on their own, that’s why they can be compared to children in need. We, the “adults” should be obligated to help them even though it may cost us small things that can later be accounted for i.e. “getting clothes dirty”. As Singer continues he addresses that the distance of faraway countries are part of the issue, people don’t make an effort because they don’t they don’t have the observation firsthand. Although this is true, it shouldn’t make a difference whether it’s happening next door or 3000 miles away. Singer writes “It makes no moral difference whether a person I can help is a neighbor’s child is ten yards from me or a Bengali whose name I shall never
...ting petitions for valuable causes, or even start a recycling system in your community. Our presence in this world automatically assigns us the responsibility to preserve what we have.
Children use clothing as a form of identity, and when their families cannot afford the latest trends, it can lend itself to feelings of low self-worth and can even make children targets of bullying. Children are inundated every single day with advertising and marketing, and these kids are connected to media a good portion of their day. This allows advertisers to creep into our children’s lives and target them multiple times every day. Corporations are guilty of putting financial gain ahead of children’s health and well-being, and the fashion industry has been identified as one of these industries (L...
I remember when I was in high school I would wake up every morning dreading the thought of “what am I going to wear today?” I remember seeing girls in school who would always have new clothes and I would wish of a wardrobe with name brand clothes. With my parents having three daughters in school who didn’t require uniform I could just imagine the nightmare it was for them to have to take three girls shopping all the time.
... help tremendously. If everyone who could afford to donate once a year actually did, these problems would not be as severe as they are today. Next time you buy for yourself instead of donating, just imagine how it would feel if you were in their shoes.
While images of starving orphans may touch the hearts of wealthy westerners, those same images may be deceiving the viewers to achieve higher donation rates. The cash is then distributed in a way that the organizations see fit. The donor learns nothing about the political and economical structure in the third world country that they have “supported,” and they continue about their day with no knowledge of where their money actually ended up. There is a lack of education, and as a result the financial gap between the rich and the poor continues to increase.
The people of America throw away more trash than any other society in the world! America consumes 80 percent of our planet's resources, even though we make up only 20 percent of the world's population (Cooper 267). The average person throws away 4.3 pounds of trash each day. That's about 30 pounds per week and 120 pounds per month! (“Reduce and Reuse” 1). Americans throw away too much - that's the bottom line (Cooper 265). There is a garbage crisis in America and “the only part of the anti-waste message that has taken hold to any noticeable degree is the call to recycle” (Cooper 267). Our country's issues on trash and recycling go hand in hand. America produces too much trash, and the environment is suffering. There is some effort being put into countering these issues through recycling and trash management, but is it enough? (Cooper 267).