Call to action: hand in your pre-loved jeans!
"Warm a heart, give jeans" was a huge success last year! In three weeks, more than 2,000 pairs of jeans were donated, counted, sorted, and selected.
We want to do it again! This year, we want to do everything we can to give as many beautiful, good-quality jeans as possible a second life for people who can really use them. Think of families with financial worries, (young) newcomers, homeless people, and people living in poverty. In short, people for whom buying good jeans is not a matter of course.
From March 23 to April 7, we will be collecting jeans again!
We use public and corporate collection points to collect pre-loved jeans. This means that everyone in the Brainport region can drop off their jeans.
Please note! Before handing in your jeans, check carefully whether they can be given a second life. Are there any stains? And are they too worn? In short, would you wear them again yourself?
Public collection points
Peppelrode Archipelago
Mon–Sun 8:00 AM–7:00 PM
High Tech Campus – The Mart
Mon–Fri 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Parktheater
Mon–Sat 9:30 AM–6:00 PM or 1 hour before the performance begins via the main entrance
Sal-T Strijp-T Building TQ
Mon–Fri 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
De Uitwijk Community Center
Mon–Fri 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Mon–Thu 6:00 PM–12:00 AM
Volunteer Emergency Service
Mon–Thu 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and Fri 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
City Sport Veldhoven
Mon–Sun 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Cordaad Welfare
Mon–Fri 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
De Pracht Waalre Meeting Center
Mon–Fri 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Opwetten Estate Nuenen
Mon–Fri 7:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
Collecting, sorting, and distributing
Various partner companies are also collecting jeans from their employees. From March 23 to April 7, employees can leave their pre-loved jeans at the office. Toensure that the jeans quickly reach the right people, they will be sorted on Thursday, April 9 , and then immediately taken away by the participating social organizations. Any jeans that are left over will be recycled by Sympany.
Poverty in the Netherlands
Although the Netherlands is among the richest countries in Europe, poverty is here too. Research by the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) and the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) shows that single-parent families, people from non-Western backgrounds, welfare recipients and single people under the age of 65 are at high risk of severe poverty. Poverty manifests itself, among other things, in (very) limited financial resources, social exclusion, health problems and limited access to education.
Source: Poverty Fund Foundation
The impact of jeans
The fashion industry is one of the world's leading polluting industries. The production and distribution of cotton crops contributes to various forms of environmental pollution, including water, air and soil pollution. The fashion industry is a huge industry; it employs 300 million people around the world. Cotton production alone accounts for nearly 7% of all employment in some low-wage countries. Read more