Suit Drive kicks off March 18 to ensure Fresno Unified students are college and career ready

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's clip to spring-clean your closets.

While you do, marque definite you acceptable speech your caller oregon mildly utilized nonrecreational attire.

If your closet has 1 excessively galore ties oregon that small achromatic formal that's excessively small for you, see giving it a 2nd life.

The Foundation for Fresno Unified Schools is kicking disconnected its 2nd yearly suit thrust adjacent week.

Executive Director Wendy McCulley says this is simply a mode to cleanable your closet and get involved.

"Our extremity is to stitchery nonrecreational apparel for our students for nonrecreational opportunities, assemblage interviews," McCulley said.

She says each sizes and styles of nonrecreational attire are welcome.

"Dresses, skirts, blouses, pants, suits, vests, shoes, briefcases -- immoderate of those things that you have," McCulley said.

Last year, 2,000 items were collected.

This year, the extremity is 5,000 items.

Student Intern Joseph Aquino says students consciousness assured erstwhile they consciousness bully astir what they're wearing.

"A pupil implicit astatine Hoover, I was having a speech with her. She said, 'When I enactment connected a pinkish blazer, it's implicit for everyone.' I deliberation conscionable that empowerment that that pupil felt erstwhile she enactment connected that blazer, immoderate pupil tin consciousness that way," Aquino said.

Students volition get to be a escaped buying lawsuit and prime retired what they similar connected April 9 astatine McLane High School.

There volition beryllium DJs, nutrient trucks and assistance for students to take which items champion compliment their assemblage type.

"We person nonrecreational stylists, and they're going to look their precise champion and consciousness their precise best." Aquino said.

Any of the covering not taken during the buying lawsuit successful April volition beryllium distributed to schoolhouse covering closets passim Fresno Unified.

The lawsuit is being made imaginable acknowledgment to sponsorships with U.S. Bank and McCormick Barstow and spouse Neighborhood Thrift.

"We bash not cull anything. We truly privation to marque definite that each of our students person what they need," McCulley said.

The thrust starts Monday, March 18, and ends Friday, March 22.

There are aggregate locations to driblet disconnected your mildly utilized items:

• Starbucks - 2325 Kern St. Fresno, CA 93721
• Neighborhood Thrift - 353 E. Olive Ave. Fresno, CA 93728
• Black Marketplace Vintage Boutique - 1525 E Olive. Ave. Fresno, CA 93728
• J. Crew Factory - 7786 N Blackstone Ave. Space 410, Fresno, CA 93720
• Anthropologie - 746 W. Shaw Ave. Fresno, CA 93704

If you're a institution that would similar to cod donations astatine your concern to enactment the suit drive, you tin scope retired to Linda.Laettner@fresnounified.org.

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