This year you don’t need worry about how you will dispose all the old items that you came across during Diwali cleaning. You can simply give them to a charity shop. That is exactly what many Amdavadis are doing in an effort to celebrate Diwali with a difference this year.
Tutiben Yagnik of Vastrapur, who, during her Diwali cleaning came across her old oven that had been lying in a corner after she had bought a new one, promptly too it to the C S Samariya Charity Shop run by the Blind People’s Association and donated it. It was soon sold by the shop.
The charity shop invites all kinds of old and non-usable items or clothes that usually people throw away and they sell them at very reasonable prices. While on an average day the shop makes a sale of around Rs 1,000, this year, due to donors like Tutiben, it has made sales of Rs 15,000-Rs 20,000 on a single day.
From clothes to decorative pieces and from computer keyboards to transistors, almost everything is available at the shop. ‘‘At times people even place prior orders if a particular item is not available. Along with a rise in the number of donors, we have also seen a rise in the number of buyers in the last few days,’’ says Harivadan Dave, the shop’s in-charge.
The shop not only receives things from individual donors, but also from organisations like Raymonds, Pantaloons and the Cama Hotel.
Dave recalls an incident when the Cama Hotel donated several glass plates. On seeing that they were priced at just Rs 2 per piece, a woman informed all her neighbours and within hours several dozens of such plates were sold.
Jigneshbhai, a businessman in Rakhiyal, says that it gives them an opportunity to ‘play a social role’ in guise of preparing for the festival. He says, ‘‘The video game that my son doesn’t play with anymore can be used by someone else as the shop will sell it at a very low cost. What’s more, the proceeds will go to the school for deaf, dumb and blind children at BPA. It is a kind of double charity.’’
For Chetnaben Shah, the shop means a big source of clothes and materials at the cheapest prices. ‘‘If people think that they cannot wear used clothes then they are mistaken. The shops exhibits not only used clothes but also clothes and materials donated by companies. And I don’t care whether it is new or old one. I just buy it,’’ says Shah, who made purchased clothes worth Rs 1,000 for her daughter.
Source: Expressindia.com
Tutiben Yagnik of Vastrapur, who, during her Diwali cleaning came across her old oven that had been lying in a corner after she had bought a new one, promptly too it to the C S Samariya Charity Shop run by the Blind People’s Association and donated it. It was soon sold by the shop.
The charity shop invites all kinds of old and non-usable items or clothes that usually people throw away and they sell them at very reasonable prices. While on an average day the shop makes a sale of around Rs 1,000, this year, due to donors like Tutiben, it has made sales of Rs 15,000-Rs 20,000 on a single day.
From clothes to decorative pieces and from computer keyboards to transistors, almost everything is available at the shop. ‘‘At times people even place prior orders if a particular item is not available. Along with a rise in the number of donors, we have also seen a rise in the number of buyers in the last few days,’’ says Harivadan Dave, the shop’s in-charge.
The shop not only receives things from individual donors, but also from organisations like Raymonds, Pantaloons and the Cama Hotel.
Dave recalls an incident when the Cama Hotel donated several glass plates. On seeing that they were priced at just Rs 2 per piece, a woman informed all her neighbours and within hours several dozens of such plates were sold.
Jigneshbhai, a businessman in Rakhiyal, says that it gives them an opportunity to ‘play a social role’ in guise of preparing for the festival. He says, ‘‘The video game that my son doesn’t play with anymore can be used by someone else as the shop will sell it at a very low cost. What’s more, the proceeds will go to the school for deaf, dumb and blind children at BPA. It is a kind of double charity.’’
For Chetnaben Shah, the shop means a big source of clothes and materials at the cheapest prices. ‘‘If people think that they cannot wear used clothes then they are mistaken. The shops exhibits not only used clothes but also clothes and materials donated by companies. And I don’t care whether it is new or old one. I just buy it,’’ says Shah, who made purchased clothes worth Rs 1,000 for her daughter.
Source: Expressindia.com