What Happens To The Clothes You Give To Charity?

Hint: they don't do as much good as you think, and this is why

Photo credit: Substack AI - African American woman about to donate clothes

When I was a little child growing up in Sierra Leone, West Africa, my favorite day of the week was Saturday. It was a day when my mother would take my older brother Boris and me to “Dove Cot Market”, a vibrantly colorful and lively market in Freetown, the capital.

I was always so …