At Blogher, we sat in on a presentation by Beth Kanter on the work that she’s doing with her Cambodia For Kids project. She mentioned that she’s been collecting schwag from Web 2.0 companies and sending it to kids in Cambodia and that they love it. We’d been collecting schwag for our Citizen Loo (bathroom) at Citizen Space for some time and when we finally repainted recently, decided that it was time for the shirts to come down.
It just so happened that Beth had the perfect destination for them… take a look:
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Fixed, my bad!
Hi Chris:
Nice to see the t-shirts here! This is the pre-destination! That’s my daughter who was adopted from Cambodia. The shirts are designed for the firstever Cambodia Bloggers Summit next week as well as to some kids at an orphanages supported by the Sharing Foundation (where I’m on the board)
Thanks again for generous donation and the free recyling!
I’ll get another photo once they are in Cambodia too.
The campaign link is here
http://cambodiabloggingsummit.wikispaces.com/
Hello Chris and Tara,
Very good idea with the T-shirts. I loved them in Citizen Space’s loo, but I ove them even more on that Cambodian girl !! Guess you have a new cause for your Facebook profile
Amaury (from France)
It’s great to see that the schwag we covet on infinitely more deserving people, and for a much nobler cause.
This is awesome! It’s nice to see stuff going to the people who need it. It’s difficult to watch it being wasted. This is a great way to recycle.
That is so cool…. in so many ways.
This is a really encouraging development and a cool idea. The sad part, though, is that the companies are wasting their investors’ dollars on “schwag” that clearly isn’t needed (if they can donate it to charity). It’s great they’re actually finding a use (though an originally unintended one) but think of the benefits those wasted dollars could have got more directly without the polluting, resource-wasting process of making shirts. Of course, I can’t see Web 2.0 companies making cash donations to this charity.. and that’s the sad thing.
we are really grateful with your support.
Clogger Team
@Peter Cooper: I think your perspective is a little overly pessimistic! For one thing, clothing is actually not a terrible way to promote a company or event… people have to dress themselves, right? It’s also seems true that, at least for startups that “get it”, that it’s worth investing in good quality, sweat-shop free T-shirts that are produced (mainly in the US) by small T-shirt shops. This certainly isn’t always the case, but, for example, we bought bamboo-based womens shirts…
And in terms of “wasting” investors’ money, there are many more useless ways to blow that money besides promotional shirts… believe me.
Thats a really neat idea on what to do with such shirts. Sure they may als work for their owners as reminders of a nice event, as this has always been one great purpose of such shirts ( besides just being able o be worn ).
But I know lots of people who attend SO MANY events where they get such clothing, that they already need a second wardrobe for it ..
Yea, I really like the idea of giving the shirts to people who may need them more .. and even if its just your local hobos ..
@Michael: the child wore the shirts for the pictures before they were sent overseas (we didn’t ask for the photos, Beth provided them to us).
I guess you could say that we don’t get it, but this idea didn’t come from us as a PR stunt, it came from someone actually working in the field.
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