Non-profit that gives Fresno children clothes recovering after theft

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A non-profit that gives hundreds of children successful Fresno County escaped apparel is present recovering from a break-in. On Sunday, July 21, the tract was breached into conscionable earlier the busiest clip of the year.

Director and Co-Founder of Randy's Closet Lorraine Estrada runs the non-profit retired of a tiny country successful La Hacienda astatine Clinton Avenue and Highway 99. She gives children 30 minutes to look done a country filled with apparel and prime retired 3 escaped outfits.

Estrada says connected mean it would outgo families $250 per kid to supply the aforesaid magnitude of apparel they get for escaped astatine Randy's Closet.

Estrada says she started Randy's Closet astir 5 years ago, successful representation of her precocious archetypal husband, Randy.

"My archetypal hubby passed distant from crab 15 years agone and helium was a giver, Estrada said. "He loved giving to the community." Estrada and her 2nd hubby named their non-profit aft Randy to transportation connected his bequest of generosity.

Estrada initially partnered with Central Unified and Fresno Unified liaisons to find the children successful the territory who needed assistance astir and supply them with escaped clothes.

"[Liaisons] volition acceptable up an assignment for [students] and past they are capable to travel implicit present and get clothes," Estrada said.

Now, Estrada says she's expanded and is providing her services to a overmuch larger area.

"Since January, we person reached astir apt astir 600 students," Estrada said. "We're successful Fresno County now, that is [Fresno City], Parlier, Biola, and Caruthers. We're hoping to get Sanger and Selma connected committee by the extremity of this year."

With caller boundaries and expansions travel caller struggles. Estrada says connected Sunday the closet was breached into, and idiosyncratic had stolen precocious donated covering for teen boys including caller shoes, shirts, shorts and pants.

"That was a large nonaccomplishment for us," Estrada said.

But erstwhile the assemblage heard what happened, Estrada says friends and household reached retired and helped afloat banal the closet.

Estrada says she's grateful she and her tiny squad tin present proceed to supply for the children astir successful request successful Fresno - close earlier the closet's busiest season, backmost to school.

"God provided and our shelves are afloat again and we are thankful for our donors," Estrada said. "All the hours we enactment in, it's each worthy it to spot a kid beryllium truthful excited of a brace of shoes that aren't adjacent new."