Clothes for a Change was brainstormed after identifying the amount of usable clothes that have been thrown out once students / young adults have either shifted rooms or have left the hostel.

Our vision: To see that we reduce wastage annually, and therefore be able to provide clothes for as many underprivileged people in Bengaluru.

Our mission: To persuade more students to understand the importance of donation and sustainable consumption in relation to clothing and encourage giving back to society and uplift those below the poverty line. Additionally , we aimed to optimise awareness about poverty , inequity and the environment being social determinants of health .

Our methodology: Every year College students begin with X number of clothes. By the end of year, we are left with X+Y clothes, only to buy another Z number of clothes for the upcoming year and then not wear the old ones ever again. Instead, we believe we can set up cloth donation boxes on every floor of the hostel, collect as many clothes, bedsheets, cloth covers, shoes as possible every 2-3 months, and donate it to charities and orphanages in and around Bengaluru. College clothes mostly comprise of kurtis which a lot of us students are unlikely to re-wear on a long-term basis. Hence donation is the perfect way to ensure they don’t go to waste. Those below the poverty line cannot afford basic clothing or bedsheets to cover themselves especially in the cold weather on the streets, hence these clothes would mean a lot for them. Within our hospital campus itself, next to kin of patients usually wait outside and sleep on the pavements nearby, for whom these clothes and bedsheets would be of great help. Our job would be to ensure the given clothes are in good condition, have been ironed and neatly kept for the recipients. For this we collaborated with the Medico Social Worker department at St John's Hostipal , Bangalore ,India .