ARTIFICIAL ACADEMY 2 CLOTHES FREE
This simple exchange led Escobar to launch Give Your Best in October 2020-an online fashion outlet made especially for refugees and asylum seekers where every item listed is free of charge. “The women really enjoyed it-they said it was like a little shopping experience,” Escobar said. She uploaded these photos on Instagram so that the women could see what their options were.
To address their needs, Escobar asked friends of diverse shapes and sizes to send photos of quality clothes in good condition that they no longer wore. However, this young woman was living in Home Office accommodation along with eight other asylum seeker women of a range of sizes who were also in need of affordable clothes, especially while charity shops were closed. When Escobar found out that she shared the same dress size as this woman, she started to send packages of her own clothes. Via Instagram, she happened to connect with a young woman in Cardiff who was unable to work before her asylum seeker status and was forced to live off five pounds a day. Once the lockdowns began, Escobar wanted to figure out how she could continue supporting refugees, even though the pandemic forced her to stay within the confines of her home. Before the UK’s first lockdowns in March 2020, Sol Escobar had been spending her weekends volunteering at the Calais refugee camp and helping out resettled refugee families where she lives in Cambridge.
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