Clothes Story.
Hello I am Green T. You see me and the rest of my family help cover the bodies of
people everyday. I currently live in Guatemala in a town called Pinula. I arrived here many
years ago with hundreds of relatives, on a mission. Our mission, which we chose to accept
was to help the poor people of this town, the hard working farmers and children have new
clothing. Yes we are used clothing in the United States but to the people of this town were
Armani to them.
You must be wondering how we arrived here. Well I will tell you. The person
Narrating this story and his family would gather up cloths that they no longer used. Cloths
from friends and family. Some times even strangers. Well they would take all the cloths
they gathered and would bring it with them all the way down to Guatemala, and then take a
car or bus to the town where Justin's Grandma lived.
Here is a little information on the town. The town got it's first telephone line in the
mid 90's the roads are still cobbled stone roads. People still ride horses more than cars
and have a farmers market every Sunday after church. If some one passes half the town
shows up for respect of the person. Things are changing quick though.
Justin's grandma owned a Tienda (Store for you English only speakers). When the
store opened the bags upon bags of clothes would be brought into the store and when
customers came in Justin or his mom would ask if they would like to have new cloths for
there child, there husband or themselves. The people would look through the cloths to see
what they liked and tried them on. They never charged the people and gave us away freely,
and we don't mind, we love people.
Once we ran out, Justin and his family would go home after they finished there
vacation and do the same thing next year. Collect clothes to help the needy.
