Fresno Unified third annual suit drive begins

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Old apparel are getting a caller intent successful the Fresno Unified School District.

Starting Monday and continuing done February 21, you tin donate concern attire to the Foundation for Fresno Unified Students.

"Clean retired your closets, look for those blazers and dresses and accessories and shoes that mightiness not acceptable anymore but would beryllium large for our students successful Fresno Unified for interviews, for assemblage admissions, for projects," said Andrew Scherrer, Executive Officer of the Foundation.

Neighborhood Industries is helping cod the clothes, which don't conscionable person to beryllium suits and skirts.

"That includes the folks who are successful the hands-on trades truthful thing similar steel-toed boots, operation clothes, the aesculapian field, marque caller scrubs. Anything related to enactment wear. We're truthful excited to judge connected behalf of Fresno Unified Foundation," said Michelle Wong, Neighborhood Industries Board Chair.

Last year, the instauration collected 5,000 pieces of clothing.

This year, they've upped the extremity to 7,000.

"The nonrecreational covering items volition not lone spell to precocious schools successful our area, but they'll spell to our Suited for Success lawsuit successful April astatine Hoover High School," said Scherrer.

There, students volition beryllium capable to store the donated apparel for free.

You tin find boxes to driblet apparel disconnected astatine Neighborhood Thrift successful the Tower District, Black Marketplace Vintage Boutique connected Olive Avenue, Anthropologie astatine Fig Garden Village, and J. Crew astatine River Park.

"It's truthful important to connection the accidental for students to get covering accessible for them and besides makes them consciousness nonrecreational and assured going into the workforce," said Wong.

You person until adjacent Friday to assistance Fresno Unified students beryllium suited for success."

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