Teens for Jeans at WCSS seeks good denim as part of drive

Posted Feb 16, 2012 By Theresa Fritz

EMC News - Local high school students are doing their part to help the less fortunate.

West Carleton Secondary School (WCSS) students are running a Teens for Jeans drive. The aim of the drive is to provide jeans for homeless teens. Students in Canada and the United States are taking part in the initiative.

New or gently-used jeans are being collected at the high school, located at 3088 Dunrobin Rd., until Feb. 20. Jeans will then be delivered to Aeropostale, which will tally and distribute them/to local homeless shelters.

Heading up the WCSS campaign is Grade 12 student Mitch Simpson.

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"Teens for Jeans is a donation competition and fundraiser, hosted by Aeropostale, an apparel retailer and dosomething.org, a site dedicated to community involvement in youth," he explained. "The goal is to raise the most pairs of jeans in our school out of any school in both Canada and the United States. There are prizes associated with first prize."

Simpson noted jeans are also being collected outside of the school with posters put around the local community. He lives in the Morgan's Grant area and has put up signs in his area seeking more jeans.

"Every pair of jeans collected is distributed to charities across Canada and the United States, through Aeropostale," Simpson. "The principal (Colin Anderson) of my school and many teachers support the campaign, and have allowed us to raise jeans in-school for the past week and a few days. So far, we have raised almost 300 pairs just from school students."