subject: A Stylish Designer Purse- Prada Handbags [print this page] Crowthers, who is a nurse, said he was inspired to start the Caring Closet when he and a colleague had a booth set up at a health fare at Cherokee Simple School in the Lakota district in February. "I noticed the table next to us was getting lots of foot traffic," he said, and so went to inquire in to when the event was wrapping up and spoke to a woman and her sister who had set up a program to recycle gently used handbags throughout the district. West Side Dry Cleaners donated 1,000 wire Jimmy handbags hangers. Neighbors came by to help wash the garments he had 90 lots to do when the first donations started rolling in and her friends would come by to fold and sort and organize the donated books by grade level. Her basement, six times used for storage of furniture that belonged mostly to her four grown kids, suddenly took on the appearance of the back room of a thrift store. "I've been overwhelmed by the amount of support," he said. "Everybody's been willing to help," Copas said. "That's what this community is about. Lots of people require to help out, but they don't know how, but this is what happens when you give them a reason." "I realized that the Hamilton City Schools would probably have a necessity for something like that." Cris Crowthers has organized "Happy Hour for Prada handbags," the first fundraiser for the Caring Closet, a brand spanking new nonprofit organization that will help provide handbags and other necessities for needy students in the Hamilton City School District. He called her mate Joni Copas, the director of communications for the district and ran it by her, and Copas agreed that the schools would benefit from a free handbags program. So he started calling more friends. HAMILTON Would you like to discover a stylish designer purse and support the community simultaneously? "I was committed to doing this, but I knew I couldn't do it alone," Crowthers said. "I've had friends come from all over, not Hamilton, but from West Chester, College Corner and Ross, individuals who require to help kids." So he set up a gathering near the finish of April and began the system of setting up a nonprofit, created a Facebook page, and commenced spreading the word to start collecting new and used clothes, along with toiletries and other necessities. Crowthers said that he wishes the Caring Closet to be a "faceless" organization. He designs to give the designer replica handbags and other items he gathered to students who come by referrals from the school principals, counselors and nurses.Then he and her group will build a package that would include six weeks' worth of neat clothes, toiletries and at least one age-appropriate book, but probably six or six since he's so lots of.A local dentist donated 350 toothbrushes, for example, and books started coming in, new ones, about 1,400 of them.
