This report is about charity shops. How important are they in this country and how people enjoy buying different things from them. It doesn't matter when or where.
Have you been in a charity shop?
Everybody in this city has been to a charity shop for different reasons: to buy a present, to find something curious or vintage,.....always trying to find a bargain. Some people go everyday as a habit, others go everyweek looking for a special piece or a unique dress and others include charity shops on their lists of things to do when they go anyplace.
Do you know how they work?
People know what are they for, but they are lost when you ask about how they work. Volunteers; volunteers are the backbone of these shops. They work for free in their spare time and put their skills in benefit the shop. Some of them make repairs on jewellery, others being sellers and sorting out donations or cleaning shoes. All of them are very proud of what they do because they know, indirectly, their hard work help others to overcome poverty and suffering round the world in innumerable proyects.
Conclusion
If you come from another country maybe you find these shops very different from others shops in the High Street. Don't hesitate to pay them a visit it will be like going into another world always enjoyable, always adventurous.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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