DONE!!!!

COVID COMPLIANT WE ARE

Greetings!

As most know it became impossible to plan a large COVID compliant packing party this year. The solution was to have everyone drop donations off outside my garage and invite small groups of masked volunteers to periodically pack them into 18X18X24 inch cardboard boxes. Once packed, boxes were stored in my garage until they could be taken by truck to a warehouse in San Leandro. Mission accomplished!!

The best way to describe the process is with photos.

In three hours:

They:

A rag tag team of masked volunteers came Halloween morning.

PACKED THIS:

If there is one thing we have it's stuff we no longer need.

TIE's volunteers are incredible. For one packing party I sent out 11 emails and 10 came. The 11th offered to work earlier because she had a conflict during the time chosen.

The boxes were loaded by Afghans onto a truck, all provided by Masih Jalala. They were then driven to Express Freight's warehouse in San Leandro, owned by Lafayette residents, Mary and Tim Johansen. Once stacked onto pallets and shrink wrapped they were loaded into two 40 foot trailers.

Our shipment now awaits a plane to begin its journey from Travis to Bagram, an air base located outside Kabul. Basir will hire trucks and men to pick up the boxes and distribute what's inside to displaced families living in camps.

WHAT'S THE TOTAL TAKE? FIFTY TWO PALLETS -- AND 825 BOXES --- A NEW RECORD!!!!

Red Vines

Once again the American Licorice company donated licorice for the children that will make 1,372 children very happy!! How happy? Check out this video of our last delivery of licorice.