Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange is Friday

Posted 11/25/14

Winter coats will be given away at 11 sites throughout Rhode Island, including two in Warwick and one in Cranston this Friday.

Greg Gerritt, who helped start the Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat …

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Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange is Friday

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Winter coats will be given away at 11 sites throughout Rhode Island, including two in Warwick and one in Cranston this Friday.

Greg Gerritt, who helped start the Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange 18 years ago with a single site, expects more than 2,000 coats will be given away in the course of the day.

In Warwick, the Woodbury Union Church in Conimicut will be distributing coats from 10 a.m. to noon. Coats will be collected and distributed from the Kent County YMCA on Centerville Road from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Cranston YMCA will similarly be collecting and distributing on Friday.

There are also sites in Providence, Pawtucket, East Providence, Newport, Wakefield and Cumberland as well as at YMCA’s in North Kingstown, Cranston, Barrington and Warwick will both collect and give away winter coats that morning and early afternoon.

Winter coats have already been collected throughout the state by partners such as the YMCA, the Roger Williams Park Zoo, the Coventry Little League, RIDEM, Brown University and many churches and schools for distribution on Nov. 28, and all sites gratefully accept donations the day of the event.

Long-time activist Phil Edmonds said, “If you need a coat, please come get one. If you have a coat to donate, please bring it to one of the sites.”

It is as simple as that.  Volunteers throughout Rhode Island offering a good excuse for those with more than enough to clean out their closets while providing a place anyone who needs a warm coat for the winter can come get one, no questions asked.  

Gerritt said, “The goal of the Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange has always been twofold. First is to provide warm coats for our neighbors who need one. Second is to point out how consumerism drives ecological destruction and the growing inequality that puts so many of our neighbors in harm’s way.”

Anyone who wishes to volunteer can look up the sites on the web and show up. The site is http://prosperityforri.com/2014-buy-nothing-day-rhode-island-sites.

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