Bronx Teen Takes Aggressive Approach To Raise Jeans For Teens
Fourteen-year-old Myles Miller can’t help but get involved - in everything.
The freshman at Bronx Preparatory Charter School in Morrisania is a national oratory champion; a member of his school’s debate team; and heads RFK, a news station he founded at his school two years ago to get the voices of youth into mainstream media.
So when Myles recently heard about “Teens for Jeans” - a national campaign to donate denims to homeless youth - he jumped on board.
“Who wants to live in a homeless shelter and have to go to school every day in the same old clothes?” he said. “Self-esteem comes into play and it really relates to some of the hard-hitting topics happening here in the Bronx.”
Last month, the nonprofit teen group Do Something teamed with Aeropostale clothing stores to launch the jeans campaign. People who donated gently-used jeans to any of 800 Aeropostale stores nationwide got 20% off a new pair of jeans. The denims are to be donated to local shelters and charities.
The ultimate goal was to collect 100,000 pairs of jeans by Feb. 10. Myles has been encouraging his fellow students to do their part.
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