With the spirit of "the healthy leaves cover the torn leaves", many trucks carrying necessities and clothes were sent to people affected by natural disasters and floods.
However, housewives should be careful when preparing used clothes to suit both the situation and avoid waste when packaging and sending to people in flooded areas or people in difficult circumstances.
Prioritize application
In difficult conditions after floods, important criteria for clothing are neatness, durability and keeping the body warm. Housewives should spend time preparing clothes to send suitable outfits, remove clothes with thick, heavy and long- drying materials...
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Ensure cleanliness and fragrant aroma
Flooded areas often have power outages and lack clean water and are not suitable for laundry or drying. Therefore, the clothes sent away should be clean, fragrant and avoid mold.
In particular, underwear and towels should be new and unused. These are practical items for women and sisters during the days of prolonged rain and floods.
Packaging and classifying clothes
Equipment for transporting relief goods to flooded areas often has to be moved by car, boat and boat. If only stored in a typical pineapple bag or cardboard box, clothes can easily soak in water and become moldy when reaching the hands of people.
Therefore, classify each clothing according to gender, adults and children before putting them in thick plastic bags and then putting them in large sacks.
The outside of each locker of clothes should be labeled and clearly marked with anti-flow oil pens such as: " Men's item", "Female item", "Child item (aged)" or "Cover".
This method will help relief teams distribute and bring the right necessary items to each household quickly without taking too much time.
