Kansas Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists (KNCSB)

Blue Valley to collect care kits for Africa

Blue Valley Baptist Church, Overland Park, Kan., will be a regional collection point Aug. 9-19 for In-Home Care Kits for Africa.

Baptist Global Response is sponsoring the effort that will serve about 5,000 families in sub-Saharan Africa. These families are stricken with AIDS and other terminal illnesses.
 
The In-Home Care Kits are packed in plastic buckets similar to the recent Buckets of Hope for Haiti. The kits include medical and hygiene supplies to ease the suffering of terminally ill patients and make the care-giving tasks easier.

Last year’s In-Home Care Kit Project ended successfully with 3,200 kits sent to South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Botswana, Lesotho and Mozambique. BGR’s goal this year is to provide 5,000 kits.

A transport company will arrive Sept. 20 to transfer all the kits collected from around the four-state region to Richmond, Va., where they will be consolidated into a shipping container and sent to Baptist partner locations in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Find the packing list and other information on the Baptist Global Response Web site

For information about collecting the care kits, you may contact David Neely He is pastor of administration and outreach at Blue Valley.

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