Old clothes to get a makeover at this training programme

If you person been wondering what to bash with your aged clothes, look nary further. You tin upskill yourself, larn the basics of stitching and designing, and make thing wholly caller from them. Or, amended still, merchantability these “preloved” items astatine a premium price.

Mithrakulam Charitable Trust successful Ernakulam has travel up with a grooming programme. “We request groups of astatine slightest 10 radical for the programme. We volition bid them astatine their spot connected designing and creating unsocial products retired of aged clothes,” says Anil Jose, managing trustee of the trust. A interest volition beryllium levied for the programme. The squad volition besides assistance marketplace the products make by the group.

If the apparel cannot beryllium upcycled, they volition beryllium transformed into different utilitarian items, including bags, pouches, mats, aprons, furniture covers, sofa covers, mobile holders, and adjacent covering for animals.

The spot has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Social Work astatine Sacred Heart College, Thevara, to acceptable up a driblet container wherever students tin donate their aged clothes. In the 2nd phase, upcycling classes volition beryllium organised for funny students.