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UMCOR -
Sager Brown
Depot
Baldwin, LA
Responds to
Tsunami Disaster
The UMCOR Depot at Sager Brown in Baldwin, LA is
shipping Emergency Relief Supplies to S. E. Asia for the Tsunami victims. Many
UMC volunteers from Minnesota, Wisconsin and other states as well as
NOMADS volunteers are preparing relief kits for
shipment to S. E. Asia.
UMCOR - Sager Brown shipped 27,000 Health Kits
last week to Asia and this week shipped another 9,000 kits. See pictures below
for details.
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Health Kit contents
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Health Kits
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NOMADS Aileen Garvin & Sharon Scott assemble Layette kits
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Layette kits for new babies
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Ladies sewing cloth bags for school kits
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NOMADS volunteer, Carolyn Morris sews bags
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Finished school kit bags
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Minn. UMC volunteers package contents of school kits
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Sewing Kits
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UMC volunteers assemble sewing kits
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Volunteer Leonard Rowe packs kits into cartons
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UMC volunteers pack kits into cartons for shipment
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Cartons loaded onto pallets
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Pallets loaded & labeled
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Pallets weighed, labeled, and wrapped
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Break time for volunteers
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14 pallets ready for shipment to Asia
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Sager Brown Director, Gwinn Redding shows finished pallets
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Truck ready to load
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14 pallets, 9,000 Health Kits ready to ship
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Richard Sockrider loads pallets onto truck
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The last pallet gets loaded
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Trailer is full, headed for Baltimore, MD where they will be airlifted to Asia.
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Staff & volunteers hold a prayer for the shipment
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Sager Brown
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UMCOR relief boxes on way to Afganistan
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Tsunami Victim
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One Great Hour of Sharing
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Created 1-15-05
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