Friday 13 May 2016

The Truth About Clothing Donation PA

By Christopher Cooper


Developed countries have been greatly known for helping the less fortunate countries, the so called third world countries; they help the countries in different perspectives including helping them build infrastructure, importing modern technology, loans, grants and donations. The donations include house hold items and clothes. These clothing donation PA greatly aid the less fortunate especially clothes which is a major basic commodity for people.

People who are the leaders of different donation agencies are driven by the love of money; as the adage goes love of money is the source of all evil they make strategies of selling these clothes to third world countries. Africa attracts many investors and sellers who bring less expensive items with the market targeting a high-profit margin. The demand of low-cost items is high since many people have a low-income level.

Africa appreciates less expensive clothes which are brought at a cheaper price and later sold, the rate of which the clothes are sold higher but affordable to the common man. These clothes have a very high demand and everyone likes to have a portion of the goodies the so-called donated clothes. They are later sold in open air markets which people select them in a bent posture.

The business brings a lot of demerits as compared to the merits to these developed countries though income tax is collected by the revenue authorities. Workers who earn a living by working in the textile industries end up having no jobs and the small scale producers market is lost since the market is flooded by cheap imported clothes. The economy is greatly affected by these market forces hence leading to its decline.

Africa have always products to export and import to other countries, these includes tea, coffee and pyrethrum and so on though there are also items that are not considered much but they also bring forth income. These items include the original tailored garments which are the movers of Africans culture and economy, for instance in Kenya, the Maasai Shukas which are exported abroad. When the old cheap clothes flood the market everyone forsakes the indigenous garments hence loose both local and international market.

Textile industries have workers who greatly depend on the local textiles to get their basic needs. When the market forces trigger the exit of these local textiles workers lose their jobs hence leaving them helpless. Mostly these employed workers have families to take care of and when the loss occurs they end up in crime to make ends meet.

Firms which donate these clothes are like Salvation Army make things clear in their website that they do sell these clothes for the good will. Money collected in this trade does help greatly for the smooth running of the organization. It is used to pay the workers and help in shipping of the clothes to Africa and other continents.

Developing countries should come up with means to curb flooding of donated clothes. This includes reducing taxation of local garments and increasing the taxation rate of imported clothes. When this is done the countries economy will scale to greater heights.




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