The Heart of LifeWear
Nov 25, 2024
SUSTAINABILITY
Customers can join by donating at checkout in all UNIQLO stores to support homeless youth through Covenant House or by donating their gently used UNIQLO clothing in all stores which will go to our RE.UNIQLO partners in each city.
About the Organizations
Since 1972, Covenant House has served and advocated for youth and young families overcoming homelessness, human trafficking, and exploitation. We create an environment rooted in unconditional love, absolute respect, and relentless support. Our doors are open 24/7 in 34 cities across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. Our staff works tirelessly to deliver high-quality programs that help young people achieve housing stability, heal from trauma, and forge new pathways to independence.
Who are these donations supporting: We provide housing and support services for youth facing homelessness. The youth at Covenant House need HEATTECH because new, quality clothing plays an essential role in fulfilling their basic needs and giving them the dignity that they deserve.
www.covenanthouse.org
This holiday season, UNIQLO partnered with Covenant House to provide a heartwarming Holiday HEATTECH Gifting Event, where youth from Covenant House were invited to join an evening of festive activities, special prizes, and personalized shopping experiences.
The event, held on November 12th, transformed Covenant House New York’s Pride Hall community space into a holiday wonderland, offering an opportunity for Covenant House youth to select holiday gifts. UNIQLO volunteers guided the youth through the shopping experience, ensuring they found the perfect items to celebrate the season.
In addition to the shopping experience, attendees were invited to participate in a range of engaging activities, consisting of self-portraits in the manga style, video gaming competitions, and cookie decorating. Raffle prizes of NBA tickets and UNIQLO water bottles were awarded throughout the day, adding an extra layer of excitement to the festivities. UNIQLO is grateful for the opportunity to spread holiday cheer this season.
Save the Children is the world’s first and leading independent children’s organization, working to ensure children have a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and are protected from harm.Save the Children is the world’s first and leading independent children’s organization, working to ensure children have a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and are protected from harm. In 2023, they worked across 115 countries, including the United States, reaching nearly 106 million children. In the U.S., Save the Children focuses their efforts on more than 250 rural communities in 14 states.
Who are these donations supporting: Save the Children started working in the U.S. in 1932, during the Great Depression, feeding the children of factory workers struggling to make ends meet. Today, they’re tackling some of the toughest problems in rural America, like helping kids gain access to early education, and helping parents learn how to be their child’s first and best teacher. How can HEATTECH help? Kids who are living in poverty don’t always have much – they would love gear like the HEATTECH Ribbed Beanie or the HEATTECH Anti-Odor Socks. And some areas where Save the Children works – like Yakima, WA, and West Virginia – can get surprisingly chilly at night. The warmth of HEATTECH Extra Warm Innerwear and Ultra Warm Innerwear would keep little ones cozy when temps drop.
Recently, Save the Children responded in the southeast, where millions of families were devastated by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Many families lost their homes to flooding and winds, and childcare centers were damaged. HEATTECH tops, bottoms, socks, gloves, and hats could be critical during crises like these – when warm, dry clothing is impossible to find.
www.savethechildren.org
The New York City (NYC) Department of Homeless Services (DHS) works to prevent homelessness before it occurs, reduce street homelessness, and assist New Yorkers in transitioning from shelter into permanent housing.
Who are these donations supporting: DHS supports unhoused New Yorkers. The HEATTECH items being donated will be used by the DHS Street Homeless Solutions to give to unhoused clients during outreach efforts and at specialized facilities dedicated to serving New Yorkers who have lived unsheltered (Drop-in centers, Safe Havens, and welcome centers). The HEATTECH gear will be especially useful during winter months and potential “code blue” days, which are days when the temperature drops below 32 degrees F. Putting unhoused individuals at risk for illness and hypothermia.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/dhs/index.page
NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal healthcare system in the nation, serving more than a million New Yorkers annually in more than 70 patient care locations across the city’s five boroughs. A robust network of outpatient, neighborhood-based primary and specialty care centers anchors care coordination with the system’s trauma centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, home care agency, and MetroPlus health plan—all supported by 11 essential hospitals. Its diverse workforce of more than 43,000 employees is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible.
Who are these donations supporting: NYC Health + Hospitals’ Street Health Outreach & Wellness (SHOW) program supports unsheltered and unhoused New Yorkers in need of care, with a focus on patients who are historically disconnected from health and social services and who may otherwise be unable to access hospitals, as well as patients with substance use disorder.
About SHOW: The New York City Health + Hospitals Street Health Outreach & Wellness (SHOW) program is among the largest street medicine programs in the nation and unique in its breadth across what is the largest municipal hospital system in the US. The program's six mobile units work in coordination with the public hospital system’s Primary Care Safety Net clinics to provide a comprehensive continuum of care and expand the doorways for patients who are unhoused or historically disconnected from care.
Each SHOW team is staffed with a medical provider, social worker, addiction counselor, peer counselor, nursing staff, and community health worker. The multi-disciplinary team provides basic medical care and wound care, behavioral health evaluations, and linkages to harm reduction services, and material goods, including food, water, and clothing. Together, they work to bring life-changing services that meet New Yorkers where they are, build trust and foster long-term relationships with patients, and help establish pathways to health and housing.
Since the program’s launch in April 2021, SHOW teams have performed nearly 250,000 engagements with community members and provided over 30,000 medical consultations, 9,000 vaccinations, and 67,000 social work engagements. In the last 18 months, more than a thousand unique patients have established care with the SHOW teams, and nearly 500 individuals linked to longitudinal primary care in the NYC Health + Hospitals Safety Net clinics. All of this work feeds into the public health system’s goals to improve chronic disease outcomes for patients experiencing homelessness and, ultimately, to connect patients to housing.
The HEATTECH donation will support all SHOW patients, especially those who are unhoused and in need of warm clothing before the winter weather.
https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/street-health-outreach-wellness-mobile-units/
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