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Clothe the World x Love the Madness!

The WCL Surprise is...we partnered with Moosejaw Mountaineering!  Moosejaw loves our "buy one, give one" mission and wants to help with our next clothing delivery.  Together, we are proud to introduce the limited edition WCL x MJ Collab Tee.  When you purchase this t-shirt, a new tee will be given to someone in need in the Gili Islands, Indonesia.

My name is Micaela. I am seventeen years old, have never been out of the country and live in a suburb that is less than diverse. I don’t have a story about how I went to a third world country and realized that people need help. I was sitting in my tenth grade world history class watching a documentary on the world water crisis when I realized that I didn’t want to sit around and wait for the world to be changed.  I wanted to help change the world.

The concept of people around the world not having simple necessities that they needed to survive was completely foreign to me. I had never taken the time to think about how some people don’t have clothes, clean water, or food. Where I lived everyone had all of those things and it started to almost anger me. I felt as people, we should all have what we need to simply live, and when I realized some people didn’t, I wanted to get involved.

When I found World Clothes Line, all of these thoughts were still circling in my brain. World Clothes Line was doing what I wanted to do, helping. Finding a way to solve this problem. They were clothing the world and I wanted to help. I bought a t-shirt and sweatshirt which was matched and sent to someone in need in the U.S. and Indonesia. I felt good after receiving my purchases but realized this still wasn’t enough. I wanted to do more.

I am now working at World Clothes Line over the summer and trying to learn how I can turn helping people into a lifestyle. I’ve realized I need to be doing something that is important to me, and keeps me motivated, with the rest of my life. I get more than the satisfaction of simply working and not sitting at home over the summer while I’ve been here. I feel as if what I have been doing is making a difference and helping the cause I set out to solve.

Micaela

Summer 2011