UMCOR Relief Kit AOK

UMCOR Cleaning Bucket and Health Kit Drive

The Lighthouse UMC, in partnership with the Peachtree City United Methodist Church, will conduct its annual cleaning bucket (formerly flood bucket) drive this summer from June 13 until July 11, 2010. This year we have expanded our drive to include UMCOR health kits because of the increased need for them to support Haiti recovery efforts. You can donate either cleaning buckets, health kits, or both. To ease the logistical requirements involved, PTCUMC volunteers will deliver the empty buckets to participating churches, and pick up the full buckets and health kits at the end of the drive. The 5-gallon empty buckets will cost $3.75 each, and participating churches will need to submit an order and payment by May 17, 2010. The supplies in the cleaning buckets cost approximately $55. (To see the bucket items list, see the UMCOR web site at http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/getconnected/supplies/flood-bucket/).

The health kits cost approximately $12. (To see the health kit items list, see the UMCOR web site at http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/getconnected/supplies/health-kit/) UMCOR desperately needs these items. We want any church in the district to be able to help UMCOR support the victims of natural disasters, the floods in Nashville being the most recent.

Cleaning Bucket

Cleaning Bucket Kit Items Value: $55 per bucket.

Note: if the requested item size is not available, go down to the next available size. If nothing is available in the requested or smaller size, put masking tape on the outside of the bucket saying, "This bucket contains no _________"

5-gallon bucket with resealable lid

Bleach (two 1-quart or one 82 oz. bottle. Do not include bleach if you are shipping the bucket through the US Postal Service, UPS or FedEx)

5 scouring pads

7 Sponges

1 scrub brush

18 cleaning towels (reusable wipes)

Liquid laundry detergent (two 25 oz. or one 50 oz. bottle)

1 household cleaner, 12-16 oz. bottle

Disinfectant dish soap, 16-28 oz. bottle

50 clothes pins

Clothes line (two 50 ft. or one 100 ft.)

5 dust masks

2 pair latex gloves

1 pair work gloves

24-bag roll of heavy-duty trash bags, 33-45 gallon (remove roll from box before placing in bucket)

1 Insect repellant spray, 6-14 oz. can (If aerosol, cans must have protective caps. See Special Requirements below.)

1 Air freshener, 8 or 9 oz. can (If aerosol, cans must have protective caps.
See Special Requirements below.)

Important Kit Assembly Information

All items included in kits must be NEW items.

All emergency kits are carefully planned to make them usable in the greatest number of situations. Since strict rules often govern product entry into international countries, it is important that kits contain only the requested items-nothing more.

Do NOT include any personal notes, money or additional materials in the kits. These things must be painstakingly removed and will delay the shipment.

Health Kit

Place these items inside a sealed one-gallon plastic bag.

1 hand towel (15”x 2r” up to 17” c 27”, no kitchen towels)
1 wash cloth
1 comb (larg and sturdy, not pocket-sized)
1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
1 bath size bar of soap (3 oz. and up)
1 toothbrush (single brushes only in original wrapper, no child-size brushes)
6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages
$1 toward purchase of tube of toothpaste

Please include $5 toward shipping to the Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, LA.

All items included in kits must be new. Please do not include any personal notes, or additional items. They must be removed due to strict rules which often govern product entry into international countries and this will delay shipment.