Baby items needed 4 Haiti Orphans
I have received MANY emails asking how you can help collect and send items for Haitian orphans. I finally have the answers for you! We just got the word and are blessed to have Convoy of Hope‘s blessing to send items to their location. You can trust 1000% that they will hand deliver these items directly into Haiti. The president of Convoy goes to my church and they have gone directly to Haiti since the earthquake happened. They have orphanages they are working directly with. Your items will not sit in a warehouse!!
How can you help?
You can start a Drive! The list is big… crazy moms get creative and help your community rally up troops to collect the necessary items. Haiti is desperate for baby items! They need ready to use baby formula- all stages, plastic baby bottles- all sizes, baby cereal- rice, oatmeal, baby/children over the counter baby medicine. On anything with an exp. date it needs to be 6 months out at least.
- Tents- they need tents for people to live in- all sizes.
Where do I send the items we collect?
Convoy of Hope- 330 S. Patterson Ave. Springfield MO 65802
When you box up your items to ship it would be a big help to Convoy of Hope if you label all boxes with Haiti & Item name… For example: All bottles in one box and put a label on the outside of the box saying “bottles.” Then do that with whatever else is collected formula, tylenol, rice, baby cereal, etc. That makes one less step for the Convoy of Hope staff to do.
If you have contacts with a food distributor and can get the formula and whatever else at wholesale.
How do I start a Drive?
It really is easy!! You can go and talk to you principals, student councils, community businesses, scout leaders, church groups, etc. and share your vision. My son contacted several local radio and tv stations- they allowed students to do several interviews to spread the news. I suggest picking one thing and do it to your best. If you want to raise items for babies, or toddlers, or children, or older children- make it clear what you are collecting. Our schools collected ready to use baby formula & bottles. It was affordable for everyone to help. Again, get creative!! The hardest part is taken care of…. the location where to mail your items to. You are responsible for getting the items to Convoy of Hope (be bold- ask for relief help from local shipping companies or businesses to help pay for the shipping costs!) Convoy of Hope will be responsible for the costs of getting supplies into Haiti.
Here’s a video to show at school assemblies.
I wanted to give you permission to use my Haiti video “Beautiful Faces of Haiti” for assemblies, etc. The photos are of beautiful children in Haiti pre-earthquake. The song is very inspirational.
http://www.vimeo.com/6420821
Beautiful Faces of Haiti from Kari Gibson on Vimeo.
