I work at Aeropostale and they put together this fundraiser of if you have old jeans that you don't fit anymore and they are gently wore we will take them and give you 25% off a new pair of Aero Jeans. We then give these jeans to homeless teens around the state so they have clothes that fit the seasons.Some people are so generous. I saw so many people bring in 30 jeans at a time, even those who only brought one pair still helped because they will go to some homeless teenager who needs them. All the employees got together with their friends and families and had a competition who could bring in the most jeans from outside sources. I got my friends and families to bring in 20 jeans.
I didn't win the contest because one of my coworkers got his church to help and brought like 60 but still if we didn't have this competition we wouldn't have had this many jeans come in. Our store goal was 300 jeans. On the very last day we made it because this group brought in 30 pair of jeans at the last minute. We were happy to make our goal and I was very happy I could help. People don't think that one pair of jeans will help but if you aren't wearing them anymore why throw them away when you can donate them to help someone who doesn't have the luck to go out and buy jeans when they don't fit anymore. This also showed me that there are a lot of good people out there still willing to help those in need even though we are at a down time with money.
The company also sent 100,000 jeans to Haiti so they can have some good jeans while they are going through their hard times!
TEENS FOR JEANS!!!!!! Put on by Aeropostale every year =]
Friday, February 26, 2010
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