Where this all began? It was the 16th January 2015 and my gorgeous 9 year old daughter, Alyssa, was cleaning her room, when she came to me and asked for some white stickers, I asked what they were for and she told me it was to put them on her shoe, … trusting that they wouldn't end up on the walls, I gave her a sheet of labels that would suit her purpose. She headed back to her room and continued
sorting things, which I later find out went into bags! I thought nothing more of it. Then she asked to use me computer and as I was making lunch she started tapping away, and I came back to find her creating a handful of posters that said “HELP SAVE PEOPLE WITH CANCER!”… that was when I asked her, “what are you up too?”. To that she replied, “I’m going to set up a table out the front of our house and sell all of the clothes, shoes and toys that I no longer want, and give all the money to people with Cancer”. And in that moment I was (again) incredible proud to be Alyssa’s mum! Mind you, this is off the bat of her cutting her long hair and donating to be made into a wig only a few months ago!! So as her entrepreneurial mum, I thought a little bigger and suggested she could invite her friends to donate their clothes and I would contact my friends and the community to see if they would like to donate ... I have also decided to contact few fashion designers and outlets to see if they would like to be involved and donate an item (or 3) for us to auction via the Clothes for a Cure page. So, within the space of a few hours, we had an event name, logo and our chosen charity (the National Breast Cancer Foundation). The Concept
For people to donate the clothes, shoes and toys that are in great condition, but they no longer want that get sold to raise much needed funds for Breast Cancer Research… In the hope a cure can be found.
