Saturday October 16, 2010

     

 

Assembling School Kits

Friday, September 24 & Saturday, September 25

Brethren Disaster Relief Auction

 

 

Church World Service Kits are small packages of supplies assembled by volunteers and shipped to people in need around the world. 

 

 

There were several people in East Hall on Friday evening preparing the supplies for assembling the “Gifts of the Heart” School Kits on Saturday

Church World Service provides School Kits, Hygiene Kits, Baby Care Kits, and Emergency Clean-up Buckets. The contents of each Kit have been selected with care based on years of experience to make them as useful as possible, wherever and whenever they are sent.

 

 

Canvas Bags

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To assemble a School Kit you will need:

• One pair of blunt metal scissors (rounded tip)
• Three 70-count spiral notebooks or notebooks totaling 200-210 pages (no loose-leaf or filler paper)
• One 30-centimeter ruler (12″)
• One hand-held pencil sharpener
• One large eraser
• Six new pencils with erasers
• One box of 24 crayons (only 24)
• One 12″ x 14″ to 14″ x 17″ finished size cotton or lightweight canvas bag with cloth handles.

 

 

 

 

By the time I got to East Hall on Saturday morning the room was abuzz with activity. Those in the foreground are flattening shipping boxes that held the supplies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Behind them were twelve tables of workers, with the crew at each table assembling 1,000 School Kits.

That means they assembled 12,000 kits on this day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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At the end of the line, canvas bags filled with school supplies were folded and placed neatly in a box.

 

 

 

 

The box is then taped shut

 

 

Stacked on a skid

 

 

…and moved to a Brethren Service Truck. I understand from Carol Fretz that her husband Joe drove the truck to New Windsor, Maryland, on Monday morning.

If you would like more information on making these kits go to the following link.

http://www.churchworldservice.org/site/PageServer?pagename=kits_main