Clarinda FCCLA Collecting Jeans for Youth
Clarinda FCCLA Collecting Jeans for Youth Experiencing Homelessness for National Teens for Jeans Campaign
Clarinda High School FCCLA is collecting jeans for Teens for Jeans, a national campaign in partnership with Aéropostale and DoSomething.org, the largest not-for-profit organization for young people and social change. Teens for Jeans encourages young people across the country to run a jean drive in their school or community to help provide clothing for youth experiencing homelessness.
Over a million young people experience homelessness in the United States every year and one of the most requested items that young people in homeless shelters ask for is a pair of jeans. In the past seven years, young people across the country have collected over 4.3 million pairs of jeans through Teens for Jeans. This year, the top collecting high school, middle school, elementary school, and college will each win a $5,000 school grant. In addition to the school grant, the school that collects the most jeans will win a private school concert by pop band The Vamps and Aéropostale t-shirts for the entire school.
Members of the community can support Clarinda FCCLA drive by dropping off their gently used denim at any of their locations from January 1- May 1, 2015.
- Clarinda Regional Health Center- 220 Essie Davison Drive
- CL Fabrication- 420 South 8th Street
- Clarinda High School 100 North Cardinal Drive
- Clarinda Middle School 305 East Glenn Miller Drive
For more information, please visit TeensForJeans.com or contact Cheryl Beaver at 712-542-9311 or cbeaver@clarindacsd.org.