In recent weeks, Church World Service(CWS) has responded to damage from intense rainfall and flooding in Georgia and Tennessee by providing 1,860 CWS Hygiene Kits, 500 CWS Emergency Clean-up Buckets, 200 CWS Emergency Blankets, 2,010 CWS School Kits, 4,600 protective latex gloves and 1,500 protective masks. (Estimated value is $81,322.)

Due to this emergency and other global disasters, the inventory of CWS kits has been seriously depleted.  These dangerously low levels occur at the same time that thousands of people are in desperate need and are waiting for help. 

"Requests for School Kits, Hygiene Kits, and Baby Care Kits from Pakistan, Congo, Ghana, Syria and Jamaica cannot be filled with the number of kits currently in stock at the CWS warehouse," says Kevin McCoy, Director of the Mid South office of the CWS Southeast Region. "CWS Kits are assisting victims of disaster - around the block and around the world.  Please donate to this critical need," adds McCoy.

Go to www.tinyurl.com/donatekits  to make a secure donation towards providing much needed kits to those living on the edge.

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