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TightsPlease Charity Appeal

May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments More

Ever wondered what to do with your old tights, well hosiery giant TightsPlease have started an Appeal to collect tights to send to the Addis Ababa Fistula hospital in Ethiopia.

524,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth each year and of these deaths, 99% occur in impoverished, developing countries. For every woman who dies, another 40 or 50 suffer severe injuries and complications.

TightsPlease.com are collecting used (washed) tights, the tights will be used to hold dressings in place when women suffer from childbirth injuries in particular when they suffer the Fistula condition. It can be very hard to hold these dressings in place and tights just happen to be the perfect solution.

You can send any type of tights as long as they are washed and do not have ladders towards the top/waist of the leg. If you don’t have any tights to send in then you can buy tights online here to send in.

For more details and where to send your old tights to click through to TightsPlease.com

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  • http://www.keepitunderlockandkey.com Leor Sidis

    What an incredible idea. I want you to know that keepitunderlockandkey.com will be attaching this article to our social network to spread the word. Everyone has a few pairs of tights laying around and just the idea that what is worthless to one woman can save the life of another is amazing. Thank you for bringing this info to our attention, I hope our customer base responds with as much emotion and drive as our staff has.

    Warmest Regards,

    Leor Sidis
    Operations Manager
    http://www.keepitunderlockandkey.com

  • George & Phyllis Horn

    Since seeing the appeal for tights for the Fistula hospital in Addis Ababa we have received and sent tights off to Birmingham.We are having a good response locall from from various groups. We visited the hospital in 2000 and met Dr Hamlyn

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