Our goal in creating The Giving Branch has been mainly to educate people about the harm the fashion industry causes. In most people's day-to-day lives, they don't much consider where their new sweater came from. They mostly just evaluate the price, and to them, the cheaper the better. But its monetary value is not the item's true cost; its true cost is the hours of below-minimum wage work spent, possible lives lost, and the harm to the environment. We hope to get people to shop secondhand more often by offering an easy way to do so through our pop-up thrift shop. Our proceeds go to advocating for labor rights across the globe, so we hope we can both help the workers by advocating and the environment by decreasing clothing waste.