On the tenth day of the festival, everyone should wear new clothes. This can cause quite a strain on poor families, who have to buy clothes as well as food for the celebration. The SWC arranged a sale of clothes donated in Kathmandu on the eve of Dasain so that even the poorest people could have something ‘new’, albeit second hand, to wear for the festival. A group of committee members sorted through the clothes, pricing them according to what they thought people would pay (ladies to fix ladies’ clothes’ prices and men to fix men’s), and then organised the sale in the early evenings when people had free time. The sale raised over 2000 rupees which will be used for emergency relief for flood or fire victims.