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Stocking (s) up or Stockings out?
How laddered tights can put a smile on someone’s face
Summers here which, for many of us, means saying ‘Farewell!’ to the woolly jumpers, trusty thermals and bobble hats which have been faithful to us over the colder winter months and saying ‘Hello!’ to a more cooler collection of clothing! Yey!
Whether you’re storing your clothes away safely for next season or sending them straight to the skip in expectation of a shopping spree for the new season, you may be interested in hearing that there is a charitable option for one of the unwanted items you may stumble upon…
Tights!
Come on Ladies, Hands up! Whose store of tights would be a match for ‘Snakes and Ladders’ as a result of various holes, ladders and scags which appear in often very inconvenient and unexplained places?!
Sound familiar?
Whereas before these items would be cast away with no more than an infuriated sigh due to there undeniably feeble fabrics meaning they have a shorter lifespan than a carton of milk! Now there is hope!
Instead of discarding these otherwise useless items there is now a helpful alternative – recycle them! That’s right! Any clean but laddered or holed cast off’s can be put to good use thanks to the Ethiopia Tights Appeal.
Tights will be sent to the ‘Addis Ababa Fistula’ hospital in Ethiopia which offers free treatment to women who develop fistulae following childbirth.
Fistulae (a hole in the bladder, rectum or both) can create great emotional and social problems for women following childbirth due to symptoms of incontinence (inability to withhold urine), offensive smells and persistent pain or discomfort.
Women who suffer with this condition will walk for miles in hope of receiving treatment at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital’ and due to kind donations of resources (such as tights) and money an otherwise underfunded hospital is able to provide women with a better, more dignified, quality of life. Every other day, on average, 7 women walk out of the hospital in Addis Ababa cured.
The hospital relies on the tops of the tights to hold in place padding while these brave women await life changing operations. That’s not all either – the legs of the tights are cut off and made into rugs ensuring there is no waste! Pretty worthwhile eh!
So, next time you come across a hole in your tights (be they your best black pair or your funky patterned pair!) – don’t despair! – send them to the below address and make a difference to someone’s day! Thank you!
Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital
Tightsplease
2nd Floor Albion Court
18 – 20 Frederick Street
Hockley
Birmingham
B1 3HE
Resources
www.hamlinfistulauk.org
Nursing Standard Magazine. July 9 – 15. Vol 22. No 44. 2008. Pg 26. Royal College of Nursing Publishing Company.
NOTE: This article was written by Canllaw Online Young Writer, Natalie McCulloch (18). The views and opinions stated in this article belong to Natalie and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Canllaw Online Cyf.
by Natalie McCulloch
Summers here which, for many of us, means saying ‘Farewell!’ to the woolly jumpers, trusty thermals and bobble hats which have been faithful to us over the colder winter months and saying ‘Hello!’ to a more cooler collection of clothing! Yey!
Whether you’re storing your clothes away safely for next season or sending them straight to the skip in expectation of a shopping spree for the new season, you may be interested in hearing that there is a charitable option for one of the unwanted items you may stumble upon…
Tights!
Come on Ladies, Hands up! Whose store of tights would be a match for ‘Snakes and Ladders’ as a result of various holes, ladders and scags which appear in often very inconvenient and unexplained places?!
Sound familiar?
Whereas before these items would be cast away with no more than an infuriated sigh due to there undeniably feeble fabrics meaning they have a shorter lifespan than a carton of milk! Now there is hope!
Instead of discarding these otherwise useless items there is now a helpful alternative – recycle them! That’s right! Any clean but laddered or holed cast off’s can be put to good use thanks to the Ethiopia Tights Appeal.
Tights will be sent to the ‘Addis Ababa Fistula’ hospital in Ethiopia which offers free treatment to women who develop fistulae following childbirth.
Fistulae (a hole in the bladder, rectum or both) can create great emotional and social problems for women following childbirth due to symptoms of incontinence (inability to withhold urine), offensive smells and persistent pain or discomfort.
Women who suffer with this condition will walk for miles in hope of receiving treatment at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital’ and due to kind donations of resources (such as tights) and money an otherwise underfunded hospital is able to provide women with a better, more dignified, quality of life. Every other day, on average, 7 women walk out of the hospital in Addis Ababa cured.
The hospital relies on the tops of the tights to hold in place padding while these brave women await life changing operations. That’s not all either – the legs of the tights are cut off and made into rugs ensuring there is no waste! Pretty worthwhile eh!
So, next time you come across a hole in your tights (be they your best black pair or your funky patterned pair!) – don’t despair! – send them to the below address and make a difference to someone’s day! Thank you!
Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital
Tightsplease
2nd Floor Albion Court
18 – 20 Frederick Street
Hockley
Birmingham
B1 3HE
Resources
www.hamlinfistulauk.org
Nursing Standard Magazine. July 9 – 15. Vol 22. No 44. 2008. Pg 26. Royal College of Nursing Publishing Company.
NOTE: This article was written by Canllaw Online Young Writer, Natalie McCulloch (18). The views and opinions stated in this article belong to Natalie and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Canllaw Online Cyf.
by Natalie McCulloch
