HYGIENE KIT PROJECT

HYGIENE Kit Project for Pledge Day

We at First Unitarian are planning a service project of making HYGIENE KITS for refugee children/families facing disaster or crisis.  Each kit contains a toothbrush, a bar of soap, a hand towel and a fingernail clipper.  The kits are packaged and distributed in a useful, double-drawstring cloth bag (11" x 16").  We will be sewing the bags and collecting the contents on Saturday, October 3, 2015 from 11 AM to 3 PM.  They will be distributed by Mennonite Central Committee, a non-profit agency providing relief, service, and peace services to people facing disaster or crisis.

Last year MCC distributed 45,167 hygiene kits to people in Jordan, Syria, Honduras, Lebanon, Haiti, Ukraine, Iraq, the U.S and other countries. See

http://mcc.org/get-involved/kits   There is still an urgent need for hygiene kits to offer comfort to families in crisis around the world.  This is a great project to do with children!

Please bring kit contents (dark-colored hand towel, 1 toothbrush, 1 bar bath soap, 1 nail clipper, all in original packaging) to the Bancroft Room Kit Display Board anytime from now until October 3.  Also bring lengths of material (unfinished size is 38" x 12 ½") for sewing the cloth bags on October 3rd.  You may also bring $12, if you prefer, and we will shop for the kit contents.  The Hygiene Kits are a tangible way to share God's love and compassion, reminding people that they are not forgotten.   

Thank You!

Please contact Cindy Cordova (cgrnc2@yahoo.com) or Marjorie Ropp (508-752-8373) for more information