Blue Star Moms Care Package 17 July 10

On early Saturday morning I went to Roseville, about 20 minutes west of Folsom, to help the Blue Star Moms of Sacramento assemble and pack care packages which are to be sent to troops in Iraq. We had to build 600 care packages but there were many volunteers that should up to help out.
The event started at 7am. I found my way around and became the person who assembled the shipping boxes given to us by the US Postal Service. I became the "Box Folder, taking the flat boxes and openning them up and handing them to three other volunteers who taped them up. It took sometime perhaps about 1-1/2 to assemble all the boxes.
The head of the event told all the volunteers how to actually place items into the boxes. On tables set up in a horse arrangement boxes of items from magazines, soup, coffee, toothpaste to chewing gum were set up. A volunteer grab one of the empty boxes we put together then went around the table stuffing as much as possible into the box. At the end of the line, some "inspectors" made sure the boxes were full and were suited to go. The last step someone would put a letter written by a school kid into the top of the box before sealing the box for shipment.
It was a great event with many volunteers, like myself, showing up for the firest time. Hopefully the soldiers recieving the carepackages will have their lives made a little easier with these items from home.


Photos can be seen in the publice link below:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=65160&id=1507778102&l=c72e257bbe