The Twynphony Hopes Foundation

Anya and Zubin Gupta, 13 year old twins from Lexington, through their non-profit, The Twynphony Hopes Foundation Inc., hosted a clothing drive fundraiser in collaboration with the Epilepsy Foundation of New England to benefit their school, The Clarke Middle School.
In their own words - The Lexington community pooled together our resources and collected over 300 bags of clothing, footwear, accessories, backpacks and household fabrics! We hosted an event on Thursday, Nov 11 (Veterans Day) - our wonderful volunteers helped move the bags from our basement into our driveway and this was followed by a pick up by the Epilepsy Foundation. Lex Media was around to cover the event while our volunteers enjoyed a volunteer-appreciation lunch.

This experience was a win-win for everyone involved for the following reasons:
· We helped the Epilepsy Foundation, a fellow non-profit by making their route more efficient, saving fuel and being more "green" as they were able to avoid multiple rounds of pickups from individual homes.
· Our community got a chance to de-clutter, recycle and make a difference to a great cause at the same time.
· We helped our environment! Millions of pounds of textiles are dumped into landfills each year and many of those items could have been donated instead.
· The Epilepsy Foundation reciprocated by helping us raise funds for our wonderful school! They paid us 15 cents per pound which resulted in a payment of $508.65 to our school!

We look forward to collaborating with our community and peer non-profits on our next project.