Used Clothes Collection for few Orphanages in Kerala
Dear Friends,
There is a pressing need for clothes, bed sheets etc., for few charities in Kerala. Altogether there are more than 1500 inmates including Men, Women and children in the orphanages that we are focusing currently. Addresses of these institutions are mentioned further below in this page.
If you have any old clothes in usable condition, which is not useful for you or your family, kindly send them to the charities directly.
Please make sure the clothes are clean, mended and if possible pressed and send the clothes directly to the orphanages.
Address to which you can send your clothes:
Address 1:(Sorting/Grading Centre)
Update: Sorting centre address tentatively removed due to present practical difficulties and cost involved in grading and shipping etc. (update 15/10/2018) Hence adding more charitable trusts and orphanage addresses who want to receive clothes.
For any communication please email: ryzenow@india.com
Addresses of orphanages:
- Swapnakoodu charitable trust
Esho bhavan
Pirayil, peyyad PO
Thiruvananthapuram 695573
Mobile 9048058423 - S S Samithi (Sarvathrika Sahodarya Samithi),
Charitable Trust Regn. №90/96,
Mayyanad 691 303, Kollam, Kerala,
Email:sssamithiabhayakendram@gmail.com
04742764183, 8593856444
http://www.sssamithi.in/
3. Gandhibhavan,
Pathanapuram,
Kollam, Kerala, South India. Pin : 689695
http://www.gandhibhavan.org
4. Gandhibhavan Saranalayam,
Kareepra, Kollam
Kerala, Kollam
+91474 2162210
(if you want to consider any more charity institutions who are in need, please email: ryzenow@india.com . The above charities have send permission to keep the address above and if any of them want to remove the address from the above list due to any reasons, please send an email. In the past we had to remove few charities from the list as they received more than what they needed.)
What Kinds of Clothing Can I Donate?
Any kind of unused or used clothes which are clean should be ok. These orphanages house 1000s of young/old women/Mens and kids; hence most of your clothes will fit one or another. We will make sure that 99% of the clothes reach the right audience as we plan to extend to other charities in near future.
How can I send the clothes?
You can use un-registered parcel service of Indian Post and registered post of upto 10KG normally costs Rs. 99 ( i just tried with the postage calculator between few post codes)
https://www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/calculatePostage.aspx
General guidelines from Indian Post copied below
https://www.indiapost.gov.in/MBE/Pages/Content/Parcel.aspx
Weight and Size
(1) The weight of an un-registered parcel should not exceed 4 kilograms (4000 grams), the weight of a registered parcel should not exceed
(a) 10 kilograms if posted at or addressed to, a branch post office
(b) 20 kilograms in other cases
(2) The length of a parcel should not exceed 1 meter and the length and girth combined should not exceed 1.80 meters.
(3) No parcel shall be such that, by reason of its shape, manner of packing or any other feature, it cannot be carried by post without serious inconvenience or risk.