So... in our shop we offer t-shirts, longsleeves and many other products... Every time when we sell a product, a considerable amount of money is donated to children in need, to children who live in poverty. That’s all.
My name is Łukasz Kaliciński - I am the founder of notjusthop.com. The history of the formation of the shop isn’t unique in fact. At the beginning we sold just T-shirts with graphic designs, the graphics we got from you, the Internet users and graphic designers. You also decided which of the projects would be printed on our products. Later we resigned from that and decided to create our own graphic designs. We got lots of information from you that you appreciated the quality and you liked the printings so we knew we had chosen the good path.... but still we felt it wasn’t exactly THIS :)
At the beginning of 2011 I and my wife set up a mini project called mypomagamy.org. The main aim of the project is to unit notjustshop.com with REC (the company I founded in 2004) in order to help children. After a couple of months we knew we found THIS. We want to help more children, give them more... but how to do this?
Then, the idea was born to donate a considerable amount of money, not only little bit, we earn in notjustshop and REC to children living in poverty. The plan was to buy clothes, food, medication, help to educate them, do everything to help poor children lead a better life.
This is how it all started :)
This is how it all started :)
As I mentioned, every time when we sell something in our shop we donate a part of money to children in need. For the money we buy winter coats, winter boots, trousers, hoodies, but also books, notebooks, crayons... sometimes, when the situation is really dramatic, we also provide food and medications.
W don’t collect money like a typical foundation because we think that you could help even more wearing our products than just throwing money into a can. Each of products sold conveys a story of the children we help, the story we can share, attracting other people to our shop. Thanks to this, the money we would need to spend for advertising we can donate to children in need.
Besides, each of the products is manufactured consistently taking care of quality. We don’t sell cheap imported goods... we want that the products you will wear are cool and nice.
We find the kids whom we help through schools and the teachers working there. They inform us who needs help and they know exactly who the people we’re going to help are. Then we get a list of goods they need, we buy and deliver them.
It also happened to us, a several times that we could offer work to parents of children we helped.
For example, one of the mums sews the graphic emblems onto the t-shirts, puts the final touches etc., the other sews some of the t-shirts.
For example, one of the mums sews the graphic emblems onto the t-shirts, puts the final touches etc., the other sews some of the t-shirts.
In Poland there are almost 2 million children who live in poverty. They lack food, boots, winter clothes. Our dream is to create a mechanism which will help to get kid by kid out of poverty and give them a chance for better future. What you can see now is just a beginning, a first little step but I believe that it will change into something really huge in the future.
I hope that thanks to your help we will reach the goal. I hope that at some time in the future all of us... together with you can say...
“I’ve done something that really matters, something that has really been important” :)
I hope that thanks to your help we will reach the goal. I hope that at some time in the future all of us... together with you can say...
“I’ve done something that really matters, something that has really been important” :)
