Health Kits for Haiti – If you are in these areas
22 Jan
There is a dire need for health kits in Haiti. Local churches are asked to prepare as many of the kits as they can. Bill Carr, Disaster Recovery Coordinator for the Memphis Conference of the United Methodist Church, says congregations should have their kits prepared by January 31 and ready to transport to the designated district pickup points on Monday, February 1. All kits will then be boxed by Volunteer in Mission teams and shipped together to Sager-Brown, our UMCOR depot in Louisiana.
The following pickup points have been selected for the Memphis Conference:
Germantown UMC, 2331 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN
Brownsville District office, 1489 E. Main St., Brownsville, TN
Union City First UMC – 420 E. Main, Union City, TN
Aldersgate UMC – 1050 N. Parkway, Jackson, TN
Mayfield First UMC – 214 S. 8th St., Mayfield, KY
Paris District office – 810 E. Wood St., Paris, TN
Please let district offices know how many health kits your church has prepared. If you have any questions, call Bill Carr at 270-816-4824 or 270-556-5221.
If you would prefer to donate money to the Haiti Emergency through the United methodist Church, please donate through your local United Methodist church to UMCOR Advance#418325. Checks can be put in the church’s offering plate. 100% of gifts made to the Advance will go to help the people of Haiti.
Each health kit must contain the following items in EXACTLY the amounts requested. If the amounts are not exact, they will not fit in plastic bag and may not adhere to the strict rules governing entry into a foreign country.
Health Kit Assembly Instructions
(Health Kit Items Value: $12 per kit) – depending on where you shop!
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
$1.00 to purchase toothpaste
(NOTE: UMCOR Sager Brown is now purchasing toothpaste in bulk to be added to health kits before shipping to ensure that the product does not expire before they are sent.)
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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