Sozo Trading Co.’s 8th Birthday Celebration!

Sozo Trading Co., an upscale thrift store located in the Avondale community in Birmingham, is celebrating eight years on Saturday June 24, 2023. The store opens at 10 a.m. and will feature special discounts at the register all day and free Kona Ice snow cones from noon until 2 p.m. while supplies last.

“The store started eight years ago with a mission of bringing awareness to the work of our ministry,” said Suzanne Owens, CEO of Sozo Children. “Since then, we’ve expanded to include our own boutique line of clothing called Halo and added a truck to pick up large donations and host off site donation events,” she said.

Sozo Trading Co. is a ministry of Birmingham-based Sozo Children which serves the needs of vulnerable children in Uganda, Africa. Profits from the upscale thrift store support the work of the ministry in Uganda but the store also conducts outreach programs in the Birmingham community with job training programs, textile recycling and support of local families in need. For more information on Sozo Children and Sozo Trading Co. visit www.sozochildren.org and www.sozotrading.org.