As most of you probably know, my boyfriend Matt and five of his friends own Choonimals Clothing Company, a T-shirt company that prints "abstract" animals onto American Apparel gear. This December, the company is designating 10 percent of all sales to La Casa de la Sal, a Mexico City orphanage for children and teens living with HIV/AIDS.We kicked off the event by making a US$500 donation and publishing a subsequent promotional video (www.choonimals.com/charity). The goal is to raise $500 more to make a second donation.
Five hundred bucks is certainly a lot of money for most people in Mexico - it's a lot of money for me. It was definitely a weird feeling when we purchased $500-worth of medicine for the pharmacy and left with around 10 small boxes of prescriptions that fit into one petite plastic bag. Considering the average cost per child there is 10,000 pesos a month (about $775), with 25 kids at the orphanage and 40 enrolled in the home-care program, 500 bucks is kind of a small clink in the proverbial bucket. The nurses, however, were incredibly happy with the work we were doing for the orphanage, and it was nice to know that at least they thought we were making a difference even if to me it felt like a trivial act of charity.
That said, buy some Choons and help the niños!
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