1. The Green School Club is doing our part for MORE! And we need your help!

2. What is MORE? MORE stands for Modular Organic Regenerative Environments. With the MORE Program, your used children’s clothing converts to better nutrition, education and income for thousands of families. There is no cost to us — they provide FREE collection boxes and FREE shipping!

3. How Can I Help? It’s simple! Just donate your gently used children’s clothes. You can drop them off at the office!  Please remember that these clothes are going to Ghana so please be sure to send in only summer clothes – no coats or heavy clothing.  At this time we are only collecting clothes, we may expand our collection to include shoes in the fall! Check out our Fall Green School Club Commercials with the link below: http://video.carrollk12.org/view/MES_GSC_01052 016

4. How does donating to MORE help our environment? Donating kid’s clothes keeps them out of the landfill. In addition to microloans, MORE provides one living tree to each woman with every 100 clothing items sold. In 10 years time, each tree will be worth over $500 USD, which is four times the income from clothes. And the trees ground carbon from the atmosphere.

5. How does donating to MORE help our environment? Based on average energy consumption, Americans release 14 tons of carbon each year into the atmosphere. One pound of used children’s clothing converts to one ton of carbon into the form of trees. The average child consumes 30+ pounds of clothes each year. The sale of one pound of used clothes finances the creation of 2,000 pounds of living trees. Every American child can zero- out their carbon consumption footprint twice annually, by donating used clothes to MORE Foundation Group-Kids.

6. How does donating to MORE help our environment? Used clothes increase commerce and economic development. Used American clothes are preferred over new clothes from China. These clothes previously headed for a US landfill can now be used to increase a needy family’s income 200% to 500% allowing them to lift themselves out of poverty. The bonus of FREE trees promotes reforestation and provides sustainable income for future generations. One hundred percent of the net revenue generated from the sale of used clothes in Africa goes directly into training, tools, and trees.

7. How Does the MORE Buyers Club Empower Women with Interest-Free Microloans? Female vendors in developing countries apply for membership to the MORE Buyers Club (MBC). If accepted, enrollment is free. During their first calendar month, MBC members receive used children’s clothes in the form of a 30-day micro-loan. The amount of clothing credit extended is based on prior sales experience and referrals from other members. Members then sell the children’s clothes and repay MBC the wholesale cost of the items they were fronted.

8. How Does the MORE Buyers Club Empower Women with Interest-Free Microloans? Each month another 30-day clothing loan is extended to members that have successfully repaid their previous loan. After three 30-day loan cycles they have the option to double the level of clothing credit extended. Instead of the 5% interest charged monthly for a typical micro- loan, MBC members pay NO interest or loan processing fee. MBC loans are 100% interest FREE. This type of creative financing allows for entrepreneurial activity never before possible.

9. How Does the MORE Buyers Club Empower Women with Interest-Free Microloans? The sale of used children’s clothing enables generationally impoverished women to earn their way out of poverty. MBC member’s income has gone from the current average of $1 USD a day to as much as $8 USD a day. This additional family income is spent on better nutrition, shelter, and education for their children. These newly economically empowered women have the option to expand their micro-enterprise business slowly or maintain the same level each month.

10. How Does the MORE Buyers Club Empower Women with Interest-Free Microloans? Children’s clothes are sold person-to- person, on the street, in small shops, and in rural villages. There are no restrictions on how or where the women sell the clothes. They also decide sale price of the items. MORE Micro-loans in the form of children’s clothes can become the primary source of income for tens of thousands of women and their families. An additional $1,000 or $2,000 USD in annual income represents a major improvement in quality of life in Africa. In Ghana West Africa, the GDP per person is less than $400 a year. Clothing represents the second largest expenditure after food. Commerce is greatly increased with creative financing. Democracy is strengthened with free enterprise.

11. Please Donate!