My friend and co-worker Gloria's husband is serving in the Army in Iraq. She sent me this email today. If you can help, please give me dollar store items or a couple bucks to purchase dollar store items by Nov 30.
Thanks.
Hello all,
A few of you have expressed interest in this so I wanted to extend the invitation to all of you. The children in Iraq are not nearly as fortunate as we are. A friend of mine said he gave out a handful of pencils and kids went crazy over them! Nathan said if we were to send items such as coloring books, crayons, school supplies, markers (apparently they really like things that make color!)…it would be very appreciated.
Don’t feel obligated to contribute, I know the world has lots of opportunities for doing good, this is just an option for you. If you’d like to help out, I’ll take anything you are happy to give; maybe your kids have old toys you can’t use for anything else, you can buy coloring books for $1 (they don’t need to be fancy), or just give me cash so I can do the shopping (only for the Iraqi children of course!). If you do bring in gifts, please remember not to bring anything religious. They will not allow Christian material to be distributed to the masses. As unfortunate as that is, we can still show our Christian love through our actions and the timing of this present.
I’d like to send the package by December 1st in order to be there before Christmas. Let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you,
Gloria Navarro
Thanks.
Hello all,
A few of you have expressed interest in this so I wanted to extend the invitation to all of you. The children in Iraq are not nearly as fortunate as we are. A friend of mine said he gave out a handful of pencils and kids went crazy over them! Nathan said if we were to send items such as coloring books, crayons, school supplies, markers (apparently they really like things that make color!)…it would be very appreciated.
Don’t feel obligated to contribute, I know the world has lots of opportunities for doing good, this is just an option for you. If you’d like to help out, I’ll take anything you are happy to give; maybe your kids have old toys you can’t use for anything else, you can buy coloring books for $1 (they don’t need to be fancy), or just give me cash so I can do the shopping (only for the Iraqi children of course!). If you do bring in gifts, please remember not to bring anything religious. They will not allow Christian material to be distributed to the masses. As unfortunate as that is, we can still show our Christian love through our actions and the timing of this present.
I’d like to send the package by December 1st in order to be there before Christmas. Let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you,
Gloria Navarro
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