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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – School whitethorn beryllium retired for summer, but students from Fresno's Golden Charter Academy are inactive learning however to crook recycling into reimagining.
On Thursday, students took a tract travel to a warehouse successful Downtown Fresno to find retired astir sustainability, upcycling, and the powerfulness of creativity. The students sorted done monolithic bags, weighing much than 600 pounds each, filled with donated apparel and cloth that would different extremity up successful landfills.
“These students are present not lone for manner and to make items for a manner show,” said Jene D’Ambrosio, President of Just Porch It. “But to larn the value of textile sustainability, textile recycling and upcycling.”
D’Ambrosio and her hubby have worked successful textile recycling for years. She says partnering with Golden Charter Academy, an biology stewardship school, was a earthy fit.
“They already cognize astir compost,” D’Ambrosio said. “I was amazed astatine however galore adjacent knew what the connection ‘textile’ meant. To instrumentality this accusation and further it — it’s conscionable ace exciting. We’ve got 35 kids here, and I’m acceptable for 300 more.”
Golden Charter unit accidental recycling acquisition is important, but letting students explicit themselves creatively is what makes the lessons stick.
“They were preparing to travel present since Tuesday,” said Tiffany Quarels, a behavioral technician astatine Golden Charter. “They got to instrumentality their graphs and enactment the textures they wanted unneurotic truthful they tin heighten their GCA gear.”
Everything the students collected — from denim scraps to graphic tees — volition beryllium utilized to customize their schoolhouse uniforms with stitching, patches, and idiosyncratic flair.
“It’s conscionable a dope acquisition that they’re capable to beryllium creative,” Quarels said. “A batch of kids don’t recognize however originative they are until they spot their imaginativeness travel to beingness — and that’s what makes it truthful breathtaking for them.”
The students volition showcase their caller uniforms astatine a peculiar lawsuit connected field erstwhile the pieces are finished.
“They deliberation we’re going backmost to schoolhouse contiguous to commencement creating, but we’ve got 19 much days,” Quarels said. “They’re going to beryllium capable to showcase the pieces they created here.”
