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Molino Church Collecting Supplies For Haiti Quake Victims
January 17, 2010
A Molino church is working to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Aldersgate United Methodist Church is accepting supply donations from the community to assemble “health kits” for the earthquake victims. The kits will be assembled at 10:00 Monday morning at the church; everyone is welcome to help. The kits will be shipped to Haiti through UMCOR — the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
Donated items can be dropped off at the church office between now and Monday morning. There is a box outside of the church office for donations. Aldersgate UMC is located on Highway 29, just south of Highway 97.
Persons wishing to help can donate any of the items listed below, or assemble complete kits as instructed.
Haiti Health Kits
Place these items inside a sealed one-gallon plastic bag.
- 1 hand towel (15” x 25” up to 17” x 27”, no kitchen towels)
- 1 washcloth
- 1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket-sized)
- 1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
- 1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz. and up)
- 1 toothbrush (single brushes only in original wrapper, no child-size brushes)
- 6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages
(NOTE: UMCOR is now purchasing toothpaste in bulk to be added to health kits before shipping to ensure that the product does not expire before it is sent. Please include $1 for each kit you send toward the purchase of toothpaste.)
Important Kit Assembly Information
All items included in kits must be NEW items.
All emergency kits are carefully planned to make them usable in the greatest number of situations. Since strict rules often govern product entry into international countries, it is important that kits contain only the requested items—nothing more.
Do NOT include any personal notes, money or additional materials in the kits. These things must be painstakingly removed and will delay the shipment.
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10 Responses to “Molino Church Collecting Supplies For Haiti Quake Victims”
Maybe the children at school could help.
Thank you to everyone who has so generously given. We have had such a great response and there is such an overwhelming need, that we will be continuing our donation drive for the next month. We will still be meeting tomorrow morning to send off our first shipment, with other dates as we need them. Again, thank you to those who have donated and please, if you have not, it is not too late to bring us your supplies.
Rikki Vidak
Aldersgate UMC
Took my stuff to the church today to help with the kits, I gave 5 of each item listed. I hope these people will be ok, it is so sad at what has happened there. And sometimes we think we have it bad, just look around and I’m sure there’s others alot worse off…
Brenda,
I would guess to help for santiary purposes.
I’m definitely helping with a monetary donation. Thank you all for your donations and I hope they make it there. There is one question that I have though, why the nail file or fingernail clippers? I really don’t see that as a priority, but maybe you know something that I don’t. I’m praying constantly for Haiti and the relief workers.
I will help with kits and a donation…
Our Prayers are with these people, I hope everyone who can will help.
Anyone wishing to donate money to relief efforts can be assured that 100% of the money collected for UMCOR will go directly to Haiti relief. UMCOR is already on the ground in Haiti, working with the Methodist Church of Haiti. In fact, 3 of our UMCOR workers are currently missing in the wake of the earthquake.
I also will help…
I’ll do my part. You?