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Hollie Chang
Oct 7, 2023, 5:27:58 PM10/7/23
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Hi Doylers!
This is Hillary Chang, and I wanted to reach out to all of you about an initiative I am pursuing with Title Nine (a women’s athleisure clothing company) and Hands of Love (the Ugandan nonprofit organization with whom my family traveled in 2018). I know many of you have donated to some of my mom’s initiatives in the past, including ones for drawstring backpacks and bicycles for the people of Uganda. It has been a few years since those, and I still have so much passion for helping the people I encountered in Uganda on my trip in the summer of 2018. Many of you know the story of my family’s trip, so I won’t go into too much detail, but I remember returning home feeling a real connection with the women and girls at the schools I visited. Ever since then, I have been wanting to do something larger to help them. Some of you may remember that I decided to forego gifts from friends and family for my birthday and Christmas in 2018, and instead asked for donations, which I allotted to various items for the Ugandan schools and for girls in particular, including metal bed frames and feminine hygiene kits.
To add some context to what I am doing now, I’ll give you all some more background information. I appealed a while back to Title Nine asking if they could send overstock and sample clothing items that can no longer be sold in order for me to donate them. I now have six moving boxes sitting in my living room full of great athletic clothing to send to Uganda. Hands of Love USA, which has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, has a few employees going over to Uganda on November 6th for the first time since the pandemic. After some research, I have found that the most cost-efficient and direct way to get items to Uganda without going there myself is to ask the people from Hands of Love USA if they can kindly take an extra suitcase or two over with them, with all extra expenses paid. I will have to get the suitcases to Atlanta somehow, and my family and I are still thinking about whether we will personally fly to Atlanta with the bags or send them through the mail. For now, I would love it if you all could assist me in this initiative so we can help support and empower Ugandan women and girls! I am looking for donations of used suitcases that you no longer need and/or $50 to $100 monetary donations so that we can pay for the Hands of Love employees’ additional bag fees (and possibly overweight fees too) from the airline. I remember my mom asking you all for donated suitcases prior to us going to Uganda ourselves in 2018, and this is quite the same. If you have any used suitcases you’d like to give, and/or would like to help sponsor getting one of the suitcases over to Uganda, please email me personally at hillar...@gmail.com. Thank you all so much for your continued support of the Chang family’s efforts to help those in Uganda; I truly appreciate it! If you have any questions about this, please feel free to email me as well!
Sincerely,
Hillary Chang
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This is Hillary Chang, and I wanted to reach out to all of you about an initiative I am pursuing with Title Nine (a women’s athleisure clothing company) and Hands of Love (the Ugandan nonprofit organization with whom my family traveled in 2018). I know many of you have donated to some of my mom’s initiatives in the past, including ones for drawstring backpacks and bicycles for the people of Uganda. It has been a few years since those, and I still have so much passion for helping the people I encountered in Uganda on my trip in the summer of 2018. Many of you know the story of my family’s trip, so I won’t go into too much detail, but I remember returning home feeling a real connection with the women and girls at the schools I visited. Ever since then, I have been wanting to do something larger to help them. Some of you may remember that I decided to forego gifts from friends and family for my birthday and Christmas in 2018, and instead asked for donations, which I allotted to various items for the Ugandan schools and for girls in particular, including metal bed frames and feminine hygiene kits.
To add some context to what I am doing now, I’ll give you all some more background information. I appealed a while back to Title Nine asking if they could send overstock and sample clothing items that can no longer be sold in order for me to donate them. I now have six moving boxes sitting in my living room full of great athletic clothing to send to Uganda. Hands of Love USA, which has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, has a few employees going over to Uganda on November 6th for the first time since the pandemic. After some research, I have found that the most cost-efficient and direct way to get items to Uganda without going there myself is to ask the people from Hands of Love USA if they can kindly take an extra suitcase or two over with them, with all extra expenses paid. I will have to get the suitcases to Atlanta somehow, and my family and I are still thinking about whether we will personally fly to Atlanta with the bags or send them through the mail. For now, I would love it if you all could assist me in this initiative so we can help support and empower Ugandan women and girls! I am looking for donations of used suitcases that you no longer need and/or $50 to $100 monetary donations so that we can pay for the Hands of Love employees’ additional bag fees (and possibly overweight fees too) from the airline. I remember my mom asking you all for donated suitcases prior to us going to Uganda ourselves in 2018, and this is quite the same. If you have any used suitcases you’d like to give, and/or would like to help sponsor getting one of the suitcases over to Uganda, please email me personally at hillar...@gmail.com. Thank you all so much for your continued support of the Chang family’s efforts to help those in Uganda; I truly appreciate it! If you have any questions about this, please feel free to email me as well!
Sincerely,
Hillary Chang
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