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(The Guardian) Clothes, toiletries – and a free stylist: the LA teen creating a space for peers amid the fires
Cars lined up outside an art studio in eastern Los Angeles on Sunday morning, packed with boxes of feminine care products, pimple patches, skincare, clothes, underwear, makeup and more. Some volunteers had driven for hours to support a unique mutual aid effort.
As fires in Los Angeles continue to rage, people across the city are springing into action to meet the needs of the thousands of families who have been displaced. Among the dozens of clothing donation and bottled water distribution sites, Altadena Girls – a new organization started by 14-year-old Avery Colvert – has struck a chord with its focus on teen girls’ recovery.
“I was thinking about, if I lost everything in my own bedroom, how would I feel?” Colvert said. “My clothes and my makeup and my shoes, and everything I have, that’s my identity and that’s my sense of self and that’s how so many other teenagers feel, and they don’t have any of that.”
As volunteers sorted through dozens of donations on Sunday, they organized items into sections for makeup, skincare, bras and underwear, clothing, haircare and jewelry throughout the makeshift boutique, ordering everything by size beside a full-length mirror. The group had also brought in stylists to help girls select outfits and match their makeup shades and select clothes.
“I want a place where people can shop and get all these items for free and it’s all brand-new clothes, shoes, makeup, hair products,” Colvert said. “I want these girls to feel confident in themselves again and to feel normalcy in a time where nothing else is normal for them.”
Cars lined up outside an art studio in eastern Los Angeles on Sunday morning, packed with boxes of feminine care products, pimple patches, skincare, clothes, underwear, makeup and more. Some volunteers had driven for hours to support a unique mutual aid effort.
As fires in Los Angeles continue to rage, people across the city are springing into action to meet the needs of the thousands of families who have been displaced. Among the dozens of clothing donation and bottled water distribution sites, Altadena Girls – a new organization started by 14-year-old Avery Colvert – has struck a chord with its focus on teen girls’ recovery.
“I was thinking about, if I lost everything in my own bedroom, how would I feel?” Colvert said. “My clothes and my makeup and my shoes, and everything I have, that’s my identity and that’s my sense of self and that’s how so many other teenagers feel, and they don’t have any of that.”
As volunteers sorted through dozens of donations on Sunday, they organized items into sections for makeup, skincare, bras and underwear, clothing, haircare and jewelry throughout the makeshift boutique, ordering everything by size beside a full-length mirror. The group had also brought in stylists to help girls select outfits and match their makeup shades and select clothes.
“I want a place where people can shop and get all these items for free and it’s all brand-new clothes, shoes, makeup, hair products,” Colvert said. “I want these girls to feel confident in themselves again and to feel normalcy in a time where nothing else is normal for them.”
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