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A UMNS file photo by Bill Norton
Relief supplies from UMCOR are unloaded from a truck in Wallace, N.C., after a hurricane.
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Relief
supplies from the United Methodist Committee on Relief are unloaded
from a truck in Wallace, N.C., for distribution following destruction
wreaked by Hurricane Floyd in 1999. UMCOR’s Sager Brown Depot in
Baldwin, La., is calling for supplies and financial help as it responds
to needs resulting from 2005 disasters. A UMNS file photo by Bill
Norton. Photo #06-087. Accompanies UMNS story #049. 1/26/06
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Jan. 26, 2005
NEW YORK (UMNS) ? The warehouse for the United Methodist Committee on Relief needs donations to help re-stock its supplies.
The top two needs are not the standard kits, but specific cleaning
and bedding items needed to fulfill requests after 2005’s many
disasters, according to Ted Warnock, interim director of the Sager Brown
Depot in Baldwin, La.
Cleaning supplies include bleach, two one-quart or one 82-oz. bottle;
all-purpose cleaner, 32-oz. bottle; liquid laundry detergent, two
25-oz. or one 50-oz. bottle; heavy duty trash bags, 33-45 oz. 24-bag
roll; scouring pads; paper towels; dust-mask respirators; toilet paper;
insect repellant spray, 6-14 oz. can; and sponge mops with replacement
pads.
Bedding must be new, in original packaging, and in packages of two. Needed are flat full-sized sheets, pillow cases and pillows.
Other supplies needed are flood buckets, school bags and layette
kits. Assembly and shipping instructions for those items are available
online at http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/kits/, UMCOR’s Web site.
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A UMNS file photo by Carol Kreamer
Workers at the Sager Brown Depot finish loading a container of relief supplies for flood victims in Mozambique in 2000.
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| Workers
at the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s Sager Brown Depot in
Baldwin, La., finish loading a container of relief supplies for flood
victims in Mozambique in 2000. The depot is calling for supplies and
financial help as it responds to needs created by disasters in 2005. A
UMNS file photo by Carol Kreamer. Photo #06-088. Accompanies UMNS story
#049. 1/26/06 |
Cash donations are also needed to cover the purchase of additional items
and shipping costs. Contributions can be made to UMCOR Advance #901440,
Material Resource Ministry, and placed in church offering plates or
sent to UMCOR, P.O. Box 9068, New York, N.Y. 10087-9068. Contributions
also can be made by phone at (800) 554-8583 or online at www.methodistrelief.org.
Previously an orphanage and school for African-American children, the
25-acre Sager Brown site became a center for the storage and
distribution of relief supplies in 1992.
Each year, more than 2,700 volunteers assist at the depot by
processing donated supplies and creating items such as health kits,
school kits, sewing kits, layette kits and flood buckets and preparing
them for shipment. Volunteers also are involved in local community
outreach programs, ranging from the rehabilitation of houses to
assistance in public schools.
News media contact: Linda Bloom, New York, (646) 369-3759 or newsdesk@umcom.org.
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