This week we shipped nearly 500 clean-up kits from our Disaster Assistance Center to Kentucky to aid in the flood relief effort taking place there. Here's what the kits looked like, palleted, shrink-wrapped (I keep wanting to say "saran-wrapped") and ready to go!
The Disaster Assistance Center (or DAC--pronounced "dack" to go along with our "cab" and "tab" and "jaymo") is the product of a multi-faceted partnership between fair Ferncliff, PDA, and Church World Service. It serves as, among other things, a receiving and distribution center for CWS Gift of the Heart Kits. The clean-up bucket is one of the handful of types of kits church congregations and civic groups from all over the US make and ship to the DAC (or to the Maryland warehouse, depending which is closer). The kits then get inspected, re-packaged, loaded onto pallets, saran wrapped (hehe), and eventually shipped to wherever in the world people have been affected by disasters (natural or manmade). To find out more about CWS Kits visit their website.
Bonus:
So..my computer died a slow and painful death this weekend, and I was particularly gloomy at work on Monday, what with everything being thrown out of whack because I couldn't compute. So David Gill--being the brilliantkindandconsiderate father-in-law and camp director that he is--decided that a lesson in driving the forklift is just what the doctor ordered. That, or he wanted to make sure someone else knows how to operate it just in case (winkwink). And let me tell you. What a pick-me-up!
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