Because of poverty, students wear T-shirts made of hotel linen

Luxury hotels usually toss out their linens before they show signs of fraying, but in Cape Town these textile products meet a different fate as they are turned into shirts worn by slum pupils.

Danolini Johansen collects thousands of linens at her company's sewing workshop, to make white T-shirts for schoolchildren in South Africa.

"We wanted to find a way to keep our children in their schools and provide them with clothes to attend...and boost their self-esteem," says the round-faced woman.

Since 2015, her project, Restore SA, has provided t-shirts made of old linen to nearly 100,000 children.

Five shirts can be made from one double bed sheet.

Public schools in South Africa require their pupils to wear a uniform, in an attempt, albeit a simple attempt to eliminate the deep and clear inequalities between the population. to the knee.

But the poorest families cannot afford these simple clothes, and the 35% unemployment rate in South Africa has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the upscale neighborhood of Tamborskloof, Pamela Nayler runs Parker Cottage, a cliff-top hotel overlooking the ocean.

His neatly arranged beds lay rows of comfortable pillows.

To satisfy customers, bed sheets should be replaced regularly.

"Our linen supplier told us about the project," says Nayler. "We are now donating hotel sheets to turn them into shirts for students to wear."

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