NCC Health Care Alert Bulletin Insert - Church World Service Hygiene Kit

 Church World Service Kits are small packages of supplies assembled by volunteers and shipped to people in need around the world. CWS provides School Kits, Hygiene Kits, Baby Kits, and Emergency Clean-up Buckets. The contents of each Kit have been selected with care based on years of experience to make them as useful as possible, wherever and whenever they are sent.

 “O Lord, how long shall I cry for help and you will not listen?”  (Habakkuk 1:2)

Then the Lord answered me and said, “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it.”  (Habakkuk 2:1-2)

The National Council of Churches, especially through its Committee on Families and Children, and the Health Task Force, senses that our nation’s cry for dependable, affordable health care for all people is growing in volume and strength.  Like the prophet Habakkuk, we believe we hear God’s injunction to “write the vision plain...”  In response, we are committed to work for a straightforward approach that honors all persons and is sustainable by both individuals and society. Each month we will provide updated information on health care policy reform along with information about what congregations can do to help. 

Church World Service Kits

Church World Service Kits are small packages of supplies assembled by volunteers and shipped to people in need around the world. CWS provides School Kits, Hygiene Kits, Baby Kits, and Emergency Clean-up Buckets. The contents of each Kit have been selected with care based on years of experience to make them as useful as possible, wherever and whenever they are sent.

Kits may be sent to Church World Service all year. Your continuing support of this program is very important and helps to ensure Kits are available for immediate response after a disaster in another part of the world or here in the U.S. 

In the face of natural disasters, violence, or grinding poverty, Hygiene Kits can mean the difference between sickness and health for struggling families.

Hygiene Kit

To assemble a Hygiene Kit you will need:

One hand towel measuring approximately 16" x 28" (no fingertip or bath towels)

One washcloth

One wide-tooth comb

One nail clipper (no metal files or 
emery boards)

One bar of soap (bath size in wrapper)

One toothbrush (in original packaging)

Six Band-Aids®

Please do not add toothpaste to the Hygiene Kit. Toothpaste that has an extended expiration date will be added to Hygiene Kit shipments just prior to shipment. Seal all items in a one-gallon plastic bag with a zipper closure.

Hygiene Kit value: $11
  Processing/Shipping Cost: $2 per Kit 

Details on packing and shipping hygiene kits are found on the Church World Service website:

http://www.churchworldservice.org  or call 800-297-151

Thank you for giving from the heart!!