Clothing serves essential functions, including protection from the elements such as cold, heat and rain, as well as harmful UV rays, dirt, germs and other potentially harmful substances. It provides comfort and warmth, making it easier to navigate various environments and activities and modesty, while allowing for self-expression and social identification.

Poverty is not just not having enough money; health care, education, water and sanitation facilities, but also lack of access to clothing. Clothing goes beyond fabric; it represents dignity, warmth, and a sense of belonging. Not having access to clothes is absolute poverty.

Not wearing clothes can leave you vulnerable to extreme weather conditions, possible hygiene issues and expose you to disease.

Sustainable clothing is essential for a healthier planet and a more ethical fashion industry, addressing environmental issues such as pollution and waste while promoting fair labor practices and responsible resource management.

Our goal is to seek to end world poverty and protect people’s dignity with greater prosperity for all.

How does The Trusted Save Help?

The Trusted Save is responding by:

1. Working in collaboration with governments and partners in all countries:
   • To Support the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan, which aims to reduce carbon emissions, water use and waste in the clothing industry.
   • To address the negative environmental and social impacts of clothing waste, which ends up in landfills, generates methane and releases toxic chemicals, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and fast fashion, which involves the production of fashionable and often poor quality clothing.
   • To Hold manufacturers accountable for textile waste, encouraging recycling and resource efficiency.
   • To Launch a programme to reduce textile waste, with a focus on donating unwanted clothing, and boosting reuse.

2. Providing funding to research programs, organizations, and the clothing aid supply chain.

3. Promoting sustainability, tackling textile waste and improving the environmental and social impact of the fashion industry through initiatives such as the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan and ‘Textiles.

4. Encouraging actions and collaborations led by the industry to achieve recyclable management of clothing.

5. Supporting clothing donations through schemes such as Gift Aid.

6. Encouraging public participation through clothing donations.

7. Providing clothing in situations where people have nothing to wear on a daily basis.

8. Supporting homeless, refugees and internally displaced people, and organizations with the clothing they need.

9. Influencing decision-makers and addressing cumulative, long-term, indirect, and global consequences on clothing aids within the United Nations, and other Clothing Aids & Sustainability organisations around the world.

10. Protecting the planet by collecting unwanted clothing which can help reduce carbon emissions.

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