BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Retail big Amazon is celebrating its Prime Day gross sales by giving again to the group right here in Boston.
Amazon is partnering with native nonprofit Catie’s Closet to assist in giving college students on the Joseph Lee College in Dorchester entry to free clothes and different provides like footwear and toiletries. The corporate is donating $50,000 to make this doable and to arrange a closet the place college students will be capable of select something they need that they will hold freed from cost.
Amazon staff spent hours unpacking college bus a great deal of garments donated by the corporate to get the closet prepared for college kids. Mickey Cockrell, the CEO and co-founder of Catie’s Closet, stated serving to youngsters have entry to clothes will in flip inspire them to come back to highschool extra usually.
“If you happen to do not feel good, if you happen to do not look good, if you are going to be the topic of bullying, if you do not have the means since you’re from a low-income group, then you definitely’re not going to come back to highschool, you are going to disguise,” she stated. “By positioning a Catie’s Closet proper within the constructing, we’re encouraging youngsters to come back in the direction of college for the answer.”
Joesph Lee College Principal Paul Kennedy stated he is labored at faculties with Catie’s Closets earlier than and noticed how they will affect college students.
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“Whenever you look your greatest, you do your greatest and we wish to ensure that our college students look their greatest as a result of it additionally makes them really feel their greatest,” he stated. “Whenever you’re feeling good and you are feeling able to go and you are feeling actually happy with your look and the way you are expressing your self to others, you are prepared to specific your self by means of your phrases, by means of your actions, and finally by means of your ideas at college.”
Amazon’s Prime Day runs from July 12 to 13.
WBZ’s Karyn Regal (@karynregal) studies.
