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Cloth a Hand

evergreen programme

a jacket can change a winter ❄

Cloth a hand.

Dignity is the warmest fabric.

warm winter for a child who has none

why this exists ↓

We don't collect old clothes. We buy new ones — fitted, warm, dignified — and we give them out without fanfare. The child who receives it should feel proud, not pitied.

8,400

kits distributed

23

cities reached

14

partner tailors

100%

new garments

meet a real person ↓

Aarav

lives near the railway station, Lucknow

Aarav

age 7 · lives near the railway station, Lucknow

Maa said this jacket is mine to keep. She told me to look after it. The buttons are red. They're my favourite part.

Aarav has slept on the same platform every winter for as long as he can remember. His mother sells tea by the morning express. Last December he received a navy blue puffer jacket — sized for him, with red buttons because the volunteer noticed he was looking at the red mittens. He asked the volunteer her name. He said it back to her three times so he wouldn't forget. She visits him every two months now. Aarav is in school for the first time this year — fees paid by a different programme that started talking to his mother because of this winter kit.

here's how →

How it works.

01

New clothes, sized right

Local tailors stitch winter wear in three sizes. Fabric is bought wholesale, cost is half retail.

02

Distributed with dignity

Volunteers visit families, learn names, fit each child personally. No mass handouts.

03

Follow-through

Every family in the kit list is connected to other programmes — school, food, health camps.

more voices ↓

From the field.

I had nothing left to wash for him last winter.

Razia Begum

Razia Begum

mother of three · Lucknow railway colony

I stitch every jacket. I know who it is for.

Nikhil Tailor

Nikhil Tailor

partner tailor, Old Delhi

We never hand out. We always sit and ask their name first.

Pratiksha

Pratiksha

volunteer · distribution coordinator

from the field ↓

What it actually looks like.

honest answers ↓

Questions, asked plainly.

Used clothing is often the wrong size, has stains, or is culturally inappropriate. The dignity gap is enormous. New, sized clothing costs more — but every recipient feels seen.
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