Nigerian immigrant Dim Sunni Aaronswuche is counting on the giving spirit of Los Ba&#241;osans to make his new business successful.</p><p>Last week Aaronswuche opened Los Ba&#241;os Community Thrift Store inside the Greyhound bus station location at 820 G St. </p><p>His pitch is straightforward.</p><p>"You don't need to throw away your clothes. You bought them and you probably don't want them anymore, but somebody likes them," Aaronswuche said. "So we want to take them, clean them and see how long the clothes can last for somebody who wants to have it."</p><p>Aaronswuche accepts used and new clothing items and sells them at prices ranging from $1-$10. He wants his business to be profitable to supplement his income from selling bus tickets, but Aaronswuche doesn't believe what he is doing is only about dollars and cents.</p><p>"We are selling the clothes for a very minimal amount. No matter if they are new or old, what we are after is somebody should have something to wear," he said.</p><p>Aaronswuche also wants to help the less fortunate. He plans on employing local homeless people and those recovering from substance abuse. He wants them to iron and clean the clothes, which is done on-site under his supervision.</p><p>"We're in the environment where you have a lot of drug addicts and drunkards and all that stuff. And when I talk to them their excuse is that they don't have jobs," Aaronswuche said. "These people are members of our community. We understand that they have a habit. How can we pin them down to stop them from going to jail all the time? What I'm going to do here is engage them in a job. Make them clean this place, clean the clothes. Give them a reason to leave the police alone."</p><p>Aaronswuche is passionate about helping the down-trodden.</p><p>"My idea is to tell people that are afraid of coming here that they are safe. These people won't hurt them. In one way or the other they are being taken care of. They are with us," he said.</p><p>Aaronswuche's wife, Becky, has operated the Greyhound station for years. She sold it briefly, but took control of it again last September. She too used to help out the less fortunate in Los Ba&#241;os by providing used clothing. She said her efforts were moderately successful. She's hoping her husband has even more success.</p><p>Los Ba&#241;os Community Thrift Store already has a local business that it gets used clothes from, but it is still in need of donations from the community. To donate used or new items to the store you can call Aarswuche at 752-2424 or752-0646.</p><p>Aaronswuche wants to eventually expand the business to Bakersfield and Los Angeles using the same concept of helping people.</p><p>"We need to give [people] in those communities our vision and allow the [them] to run with our vision," he said. "Just like Wells Fargo wants to open branches of their bank everywhere, we want to open branches of what we're doing anywhere we know."</p><p>Enterprise reporter Corey Pride can be reached by phone at 388-6563 or by e-mail at cpride@losbanosenterprise.com