Overseas Container Shipments

The summer of 2002 was Project Hunger's first experience in efforts to fill an overseas shipping container with a destination; the country of Lithuania.

Approximately 10,000 pounds was collected from the Grand Island area along with about $2,500.00 in used medical equipment.

Trinity Lutheran School in Grand Island, NE was the staging area during the months of June and July. Two classrooms were temporarily emptied and donated to receive and box the good used clothing and shoes for men, women and children.

Saturday mornings were scheduled for activity in preparing a shipment for the people in Lithuania. Items were sorted, boxed and labeled for men women and children, then the boxes were sealed and loaded on the truck.

A local trucking company was hired to haul the collected and boxed items to Norfolk, NE, which is the home of Orphan Grain Train. From there, additional items were added until a forty foot overseas container was filled and sent on its way.

Each box of clothing or shoes has a shipping cost of approximately $7.00. Funds were collected to meet a portion of that requirement.

This was a fun and rewarding project. Plans to repeat the process again this summer are now under way. More information will follow.