Hotel bed linen may conjure up pleasant but also some abhorrent memories for most travellers.
But through a collaboration with Marriott International and non-profit organisation Royal Kidz, old bed linen helped a school in Cape Town.
About 320 children at Klipheuwel Primary school in Durbanville received new school shirts, jackets, shoes and socks made from repurposing hotel bed sheets.
Marriott International and Royal Kidz worked together over the past 18 months, handing over a total of 3 000 similar donations to date to schools in under-served communities.
The project began when Marriott was looking for local solutions to repurpose the large volume of bed…