Sort a thon Volunteering Activities

Victor and William Fung Foundation Limited

You may have already heard of Conscious Layer, a social enterprise established by Yaki Woo (FS06/07, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Magalena Kohut (FS15/16, University of Oxford) promoting the “reuse” of fashion inspired by their experience in New Zealand.

While in Hong Kong, aleon Fung (FS11/12, the Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Anthea Chan (FS17/18, The University of Hong Kong) and staff from Fung Group gathered together to volunteer at the Redress Sort-a-thon event, helping to sort clothes collected from across Hong Kong which weighed over 10 tons!

Tons of clothes collected were to be sorted according to quality and garment type. The team worked together to determine whether the clothes would be resold to raise funds for charity, donated to those in need, or recycled for useful materials, so as to reduce the amount of textiles going to landfill.