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Seed explained that while it’s common for people to give used clothing to homeless shelters and thrift shops, used underwear isn’t really the kind of thing that gets donated. And not many people think of donating new underwear, so homeless shelters rarely have enough.
ONE STRING ATTACHED
King formed a charity called Got Ginch (“ginch” is a slang term for men’s briefs) and funded it with thousands of dollars of his own money, plus thousands more raised from friends. Rather than buy underwear at retail prices, he asked a business associate in China to help him work directly with a textile mill overseas to save money. The associate, a native of Vancouver, B.C., agreed...on one condition. “He said, ‘I’ll do it only if you do Vancouver next.’” That was fine with King, but why stop there? He decided to fill an RV full of underwear and spend his summer vacation driving 3,600 miles across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax, Nova Scotia, distributing underwear to homeless shelters in 10 different cities as he went. He hit the road in June 2009, and by the time he finished his Cross-Canada Underwear Drive a few weeks later, he’d given away more than 25,000 pairs of men’s briefs. He did it again the following summer, this time raising enough money to give 30,000 pairs of underwear away. His goal for 2011: 35,000 pairs.
The cross-country tours have helped raise awareness of the issue, and many Canadian homeless shelters have reported increased underwear donations. King hopes to distribute even more in future Underwear Drives...and after years of prodding about why he doesn’t distribute underwear for women , he says he’s working on that too. “I acknowledge that the need exists and that it is at least as important as the need for men’s underwear,” he writes in his blog, “but I maintain that two guys traveling cross country with a truck load of women’s underwear is a little creepy. We are working to find a couple of like-minded ladies to take up the challenge.”
OTHER CANADIAN UNDERWEAR CRUSADERS
• The Underwear Affair. The Underwear Affair is a charity race held by a number of Canadian charities to raise awareness for cancers that occur below the waist—including prostate, ovarian, testicular, bladder, and colorectal cancers—which make up 40 percent of all cancers. Weeks ahead of the race, volunteers promote the event by wearing skivvies over their clothing. On race day, participants run the 10k race or walk the 5k walk in their underwear or in underwear-themed costumes. “There’s absolutely no shame in bringing a little awareness to down there-ness,” says the website for the B.C. Cancer Foundation.
• Mark McIntyre, a.k.a. GuyAtHome.com . Who says you’ve gotta run a race in order to raise money for a good cause? In October 2010, McIntyre, a two-year survivor of testicular cancer (the most common cancer in males aged 15 to 29), fired up some webcams in a rented Toronto loft and spent 25 days lounging around in his underpants. That’s it. For every “like” he received on Facebook during those 25 days, underwear maker Stanfield’s agreed to donate $1 to the Canadian Cancer Society. “Since they’re an underwear company, they’re about as close to testicles as any company is,” McIntyre says. He scored 50,000 “likes” and raised $50,000 for the charity.
Jon Stewart’s older brother, Larry Leibowitz, is the COO of the New York Stock Exchange.
IRONIC, ISN’T IT?
There’s nothing like a good dose of irony to put the problems of day-to-day life into proper perspective .
L OW-GRADE IRONY
In 2011 the U.S. National Council on Teacher Quality announced that it would begin using letter grades to evaluate teaching instructors. The teachers objected to the plan, claiming letter grades are too simplistic to accurately measure anyone’s achievements.
A FISTFUL OF IRONY
• In January 2007, Pakistan’s Daily Times reported on violence at Dawood Engineering College in Karachi.
ONE STRING ATTACHED
King formed a charity called Got Ginch (“ginch” is a slang term for men’s briefs) and funded it with thousands of dollars of his own money, plus thousands more raised from friends. Rather than buy underwear at retail prices, he asked a business associate in China to help him work directly with a textile mill overseas to save money. The associate, a native of Vancouver, B.C., agreed...on one condition. “He said, ‘I’ll do it only if you do Vancouver next.’” That was fine with King, but why stop there? He decided to fill an RV full of underwear and spend his summer vacation driving 3,600 miles across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax, Nova Scotia, distributing underwear to homeless shelters in 10 different cities as he went. He hit the road in June 2009, and by the time he finished his Cross-Canada Underwear Drive a few weeks later, he’d given away more than 25,000 pairs of men’s briefs. He did it again the following summer, this time raising enough money to give 30,000 pairs of underwear away. His goal for 2011: 35,000 pairs.
The cross-country tours have helped raise awareness of the issue, and many Canadian homeless shelters have reported increased underwear donations. King hopes to distribute even more in future Underwear Drives...and after years of prodding about why he doesn’t distribute underwear for women , he says he’s working on that too. “I acknowledge that the need exists and that it is at least as important as the need for men’s underwear,” he writes in his blog, “but I maintain that two guys traveling cross country with a truck load of women’s underwear is a little creepy. We are working to find a couple of like-minded ladies to take up the challenge.”
OTHER CANADIAN UNDERWEAR CRUSADERS
• The Underwear Affair. The Underwear Affair is a charity race held by a number of Canadian charities to raise awareness for cancers that occur below the waist—including prostate, ovarian, testicular, bladder, and colorectal cancers—which make up 40 percent of all cancers. Weeks ahead of the race, volunteers promote the event by wearing skivvies over their clothing. On race day, participants run the 10k race or walk the 5k walk in their underwear or in underwear-themed costumes. “There’s absolutely no shame in bringing a little awareness to down there-ness,” says the website for the B.C. Cancer Foundation.
• Mark McIntyre, a.k.a. GuyAtHome.com . Who says you’ve gotta run a race in order to raise money for a good cause? In October 2010, McIntyre, a two-year survivor of testicular cancer (the most common cancer in males aged 15 to 29), fired up some webcams in a rented Toronto loft and spent 25 days lounging around in his underpants. That’s it. For every “like” he received on Facebook during those 25 days, underwear maker Stanfield’s agreed to donate $1 to the Canadian Cancer Society. “Since they’re an underwear company, they’re about as close to testicles as any company is,” McIntyre says. He scored 50,000 “likes” and raised $50,000 for the charity.
Jon Stewart’s older brother, Larry Leibowitz, is the COO of the New York Stock Exchange.
IRONIC, ISN’T IT?
There’s nothing like a good dose of irony to put the problems of day-to-day life into proper perspective .
L OW-GRADE IRONY
In 2011 the U.S. National Council on Teacher Quality announced that it would begin using letter grades to evaluate teaching instructors. The teachers objected to the plan, claiming letter grades are too simplistic to accurately measure anyone’s achievements.
A FISTFUL OF IRONY
• In January 2007, Pakistan’s Daily Times reported on violence at Dawood Engineering College in Karachi.
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