[Dialogue] KATRINA RELIEF: Health Kits/Hope in a Box Kits for Children--Katrina relief

[elliestock@aol.com]

from Ellie Stock:
 
For any who might be interested: TWO TYPES OF KITS OUR CHURCH PC(USA) is sending to Katrina victims:
 
1) PERSONAL HEALTH KITS
 
1 -  bath towel
1 - hand towel
1 - wash cloth
1 - comb
1 - toothbrush
1 - tube of toothpaste (4-7 oz)
2 - bars of soap (bath size)
1 - container (non-aerosol) deodorant.
 
Seal all items in a one-gallon plastic bag with a zipper closure and rolle in the bath towel.
 
HOPE IN BOX KITS FOR CHILDREN
 
1 - Rubbermaid Clear Impression shoebox with lid, 6.5 qt., or other flexible clear plastic 6.5 qt. box with lid
1 - small stuffed bear
1 - small soft ball
1 - harmonica or other small musical instrument
1 - 6"x9" non-spiral bound pad of regular or construction paper (60-100 sheets)
1 - Slinky (metal or plastic)
1 - yo-yo
1 - 7-foot child's jump rope
1 - comb
1 - tube of toothpaste (4-7 oz)
1 - box of 24 crayons
1 - large eraser
6 - new pencils with erasers
1 - pencil sharpener
1 - 30-centimenter ruler (12")
1 - pair blunt child's scissors
Place all items inside the Rubbermaid shoebox, close lid, and tie securely with ribbon.
 
SHIPPING: please place kits in a box for shipment, and clearly mark the box with the number of kits inside.  Include the name of the church, group, or individual sending the kits on a letter or note card inside the top of the box.  Ship prepaid to: Presbyterian Disaster Assistnace, MBF/Project Cure, 10250 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77042
 
For any truck deliveries, you must first contact Dox Fox, MBF warehouse manager, at 832-251-2489, to schedule delivery.
ONLY these two kinds of kits will be accepted at teh warehouse at this time. 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: aiseayew <aiseayew at iowatelecom.net>
To: Colleague Dialogue <Dialogue at wedgeblade.net>; oe at wedgeblade.net
Sent: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:10:36 -0500
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] UNCOR and small miracles


Thanks Linda and Suzanne for this timely message.

Here in Iowa we do a massive collection of items UMCOR distributes each 
fall.  They put out a call for all congregations that were assembling 
"health kits" for the fall in-gathering to send them immediately to 
collection points for distribution to hurricane victims.  This year our 
congregation was doing both health kits and seed kits, so on Thursday, our 
small congregation (fifteen people with an average attendance of ten) 
managed to have the after school program put together 47 "kits."  This may 
not seem like a big number, but it was really an astouding event to have our 
population of mostly Mexican chidren from the town work so hard to match 
towels and wash cloths and toothpaste and combs into ziploc bags.  The 
biggest struggle was "only" six bandaids, and then explaining to them why 
they could not put notes of encouragement in each of the bags.
Margaret 


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