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(The regular updates are available under Newsletters on the menu bar or by clicking here) Suggestions for collection centers for Relief to Haiti Please, take the initiative and start a collection center in your area. We are hoping to ship a large amount of supply through the Friend Ships humaniterian service out of Lake Charles, LA. I would like for every city where we have at least one supporter to start a collection center. The friend ships organization has some very strict guidelines and packaging instructions. Please review them as you organize the collection drive. The first step is to get approval from the Friend Ships. This form needs to be filled out and submitted to them: 1stResponse Form This form is to be sent to: Anne Reed (
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The Friends Ships Guidelines have a list of approaved items; We are putting emphasis on the following items. Items for the collection drives for Haiti 1. Food 50 - 100 LBs bags of rice, beans, sugar, whole milk powder, flour, etc 1 - 5 gallons cooking oil Other non-perishable may be sent but use good common sense. A can of Crushed Pineapple to a country where fresh pineapple is available is not a good choice. 2. Clothing Take into consideration that most people here are small or petite in size. No pants sizes larger than 32' waist, no shirt larger than a 15. No ladies dresses larger than an 8. I know this is limiting but anything bigger would just be taking valuable space and cannot be used. With that in mind we can use: baby to adult clothes and shoes 3. Equipments Computers - must be a Mac or PC able to run Windows XP. Notebooks preferred but will take desktops but only with a flat screen monitor. Diesel Generators - any size 4. School supplies Notebooks, pens and pencils, crayons. Be careful with books. They would need to be in French. Any English book is of no value here.
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