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The Grateful Garment Project provides backpacks of clothing, toiletries, and snacks to victims of sexual violence. Without this help, victims, who often must surrender some of their clothing as evidence of rape, might have to go home in a flimsy hospital gown.
The Palo Alto Rotary Club purchased materials for these backpacks, and assembled them during our regular meeting.
From their website: "The Grateful Garment Project’s mission is to ensure that every victim of a sexual crime who crosses the threshold of a Sexual Assault Response Team facility or who seeks medical attention and/or law enforcement involvement is provided with whatever new clothing, toiletries, snacks, and other miscellaneous items that he or she may require, to reduce further negative impact against their being. We have further expanded our mission and vision to encompass all victims of sexual violence. This includes, but is not limited to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children and victims of Human Sexual Trafficking.Vision
Our scope is wide but our purpose is narrow: The Vision of TGGP is that no victim of sexual violence in our communities should ever experience further suffering due to a lack of clothing to wear home after he or she receives services from a Sexual Violence Service Provider."