Listin Diario reporters revealed the strange incident of freight trucks burying clothing packages in La Mina de Cambelen, a San Cristobal limestone mine, and how residents in the area discovered the operation and have benefited.
Listin Diario reports that hundreds of people have impeded the burial of the used clothing and other materials at the site, preferring to remove the items for their personal use.
Listin Diario reporter Adriana Peguero explains that in mid December, seven freight containers entered the La Mina de Cambelen area. Area residents were curious and after the freight truckers had left went hunting to see what had been buried there. They discovered “a mountain” of clothing and the word got out about the source of free clothes for all.
As reported, on Sunday, 6 January 2019, the residents again heard the cargo trucks driving by at around 2:30am and witnessed how the freight containers were again unloaded. This time the residents told the truckers where they should deposit their load for their own convenience.
“We were naked and clothes arrived,” they told the reporter. “We do not know who is doing the dumping, because they throwing the clothes away, or where they come from, what we know is that it has solved a problem for us. This has come to us like a glove. I only know that I came empty and I’m loaded with clothes without paying a cent for it to anyone,” said a woman who did not want her name published. Now in La Mina de Cambelén, instead of limestone, there are thousands of pieces of clothing, a bonus for the residents.
As reported by the community, there have been fine bedspreads, silk sheets of recognized brands, embroidered tablecloths, pillowcases, curtains, carpets, as well as women’s dresses, blouses, pants of all styles and colors, skirts, t-shirt, caps, ties, various socks, underpants and scarves.
Also dumped were coats, men’s and women’s underwear, gowns, mortarboards, karate uniforms, orthopedic collars, shoes, dolls, toy cars, knee pads and various decorative items for the home.
As reported, the clothing dump has attracted people from all over San Cristobal and Santo Domingo provinces.
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Listin Diario
9 January 2019
