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In the season of giving, a local charity that collects clothing to support youth programs is reeling after six of their donation bins were stolen.

The Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa’s purple drop boxes, used to collect gently used clothing and household items, were taken sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

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The organization’s executive director says it’s not the first time the 1,000-pound boxes have been stolen from a charity, and says the thefts of the bins — worth $1,200 each — are not random.

“I think this is quite co-ordinated,” said Susan Ingram, who said bins were stolen from their sister locations in Gatineau in October. “And, for some reason, there is a type of bin they like. What they are doing with them I don’t know. Are they repainting them and using them somewhere else in Ontario? I don’t know.”

While she calls the thefts “disheartening,” she says clothing pickups were done Tuesday, so items donated on the weekend would have gone to the program.