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UMCOR depot needs new supplies

Jan. 26, 2006

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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.

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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United Methodist News Service
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