Any way of donating old clothing to third world countries?

[Randall]

So, I got some Sealskinz mittens sitting in the drawer and I don't think I'm going to use them again. They're in top condition, and they're too small for me. I want to give them someone who will get use out of them. If they go to friends or family or charity shop they're likely to not be used very much. But someone in a poor, cold country would definitely find them useful. I'll give them to such a person if possible. Don't mind paying a bit of postage but I'd rather hand them in somewhere in town and then when there's enough someone could just put them in a box on the next flight to some poor country.

Any such scheme??


Edit: I should have put as the title 'unwanted clothing' instead of 'old clothing'

 

[Old Bones]

Much easier to donate them to Oxfam ,etc. They sort the donated clothes carefully, and generally do their best to get a decent price for them (put a note on them to tell the charity what they actually have might help), possibly by putting them in a more specialist shop. That money then gets used in country. And the person in the UK gets a decent set of mittens!

Most countries thats are cold (at least in the Western world) are not poor, although I'm sure something like the Syrian refugees might still find them useful for the winters ahead, or perhaps Nepal. You could always Freecycle etc them, with a donation towards a charity.

 

[sandbender]

Most of the clothes you donate to Oxfam and the like end up here in Hungary and some of the neighbouring countries.

Oxfam and the like can raise more capital selling them in bulk to wholesalers who supply the very successful used (or unsold) garment industry here.

In fact second hand clothes shops here use the union jack in their logo and are referred to as English clothing shops.

Hungary might not look like the third world from over there but actually the levels of poverty are pretty high, it isn't the the Congo, but the Middle and Working Classes of Kenya are possibly better off than the ones here.

 

[Randall]

Oxfam it is then - there's a shop nearby.
..Hopefully someone will get some use out of them then. Can't be doing with having kit sitting idly on the shelf.
Cheers.