The Canadian Diabetes Association's Clothesline Program needs reusable clothing donations to reach its goal of collecting 12 million kilograms and organizers are making it easy.
The highlight of this year's campaign is a national Fill a Truck event this Saturday, May 21 at the following Tri-City locations:
Royal Canadian Legion, 2513 Clarke St., Port Moody;
Canadian Tire, 1200 Seguin Dr., Coquitlam;
and the Canadian Diabetes business operations office at 302-1515 Broadway St., PoCo.
As well, CDA's "What's in your closet?" continues to the end of June, with an extra incentive to clean out closets the week of June 5 to 11 - Canadian Environment Week. Donors can schedule a free pick-up right from their door by visiting diabetes.ca/promise or calling 1-800-505-5525; when they schedule a pick-up by June 11 and mention the word "closet," they will be entered in a draw for an Apple iPad. Clothesline accepts reusable clothing, all cloth-based items, shoes, boots, books, toys and much more.
(Some conditions apply; visit diabetes.ca/clothesline for more details.)
Each year, Clothesline diverts more than 42 million kilograms of clothing and household items from landfills.
All proceeds from donations are used to support the Canadian Diabetes Association mission of leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while we work to find a cure. The donation helps to support the nine million Canadians living with diabetes or pre-diabetes.
For more information, visit diabetes.ca or call 1-800-226-8464.
