Thanks to everybody who has been contributing! We have lots of great supplies for the refugees at Fort McCoy - so many boxes tightly packed with socks, sidewalk chalk, coloring books, all sorts of stuff! One person brought a couple Frisbees - great idea! And lots of diapers, which is fantastic, as our contact Laura says there are several hundred pregnant moms among the refugees!! There are more supplies still coming in. Most of this stuff will get transported up to them tomorrow (Wednesday) night.
Laura also said that the refugees will be needing cold weather wear - coats, hats, gloves, boots, etc. (New items, or truly like new, please) We can also still use hand-written notes and letters of welcome, especially for the children. So we will continue collecting items, next week Tues thru Thurs (9/21-9/23) 4pm-6pm, and Saturday 9/25 from 10am-noon, at Cornerstone Church in Spring Green, at 210 N Lexington St.