Supplies and Shipping Woes.

This pile of supplies is the start of what we want to fill our 6 jump kits with!  Thank you donors for money, a lot of it went to these supplies.  All of this cost $420 and we still need to buy gloves, masks, condoms, band-aids, alcohol, H202, soap and hand sanitizer.  On top of that we are buying school supplies or looking for donations of large sheets of white roll paper, crayons, markers, and lollipops for kids, etc.  Other funds are needed for printing posters, colouring pages, demo supplies and SHIPPING!  We need tremendous help for shipping these supplies.  United airline offers NO help for people shipping medical supplies for a charity therefore we are looking at a $150 fee on top of $40 per bag if they are overweight.  We will probably be using $600-700 of the donated money towards medical supplies and school stuff.  That leaves us with $50 for shipping.  Please consider donating to help us get our supplies there! Airlines are ridiculous we already paid $600 for our flight out of our own pockets and now need some help getting everything there.  I mean after all we are just trying to help a community of people, you'd think these corporations would get that. 

Thanks for the continued support!  Donations will be accepted until March 4th.

1 MONTH UNTIL TAKE OFF

Guess what everyone? This time next month Kelsey and I will be on our way to Haiti with our massive amount of supplies!  And it will definitely be warmer than what Nemo has left all of us in the Northeast with.

We have officially raised $735 thanks to everyone who has donated through here, through the newspaper articles and through the chemistry department at Conn.  We cannot express how grateful we are to all of you!  We would love to raise even more in order to buy everything we originally planned for so if you have not donated yet and think you would like to support a great cause go right ahead :-)  Our ideal goal would be $1000!

Now we have to start buying supplies, making first aid kits and planning lessons to teach!  If anyone has any opinions on great first aid lessons for us to plan feel free to leave a comment or let us know. You have all helped us so much and you deserve a say in what we will teach.

Thanks for all the support and keep the donations coming!