Back on Track Care Packs

Back on Track Care Packs began Friday afternoon with a mother of four needing a way to help the children left homeless and devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Kia Grant wrote a letter to the 200 people in her e-mail address book requesting their participation in her project. Her basic idea is simple--buy a backpack currently at back to school sale prices, create the Care Pack specifically for a child of a certain age and gender and fill it with items (such as stuffed toys, crayons, bubbles, etc). As of Tuesday morning, there were over 50 members on the Yahoo site, and she had secured seven designated locations across the US for her Care Packs to be shipped directly to. Over ten schools and churches across the country are holding drives to amass large shipments. Care Packs are coming from Switzerland. She appointed a board of Regional Coordinators to assist her in the administrative and organizational tasks required to run her ever-growing project. Beyond the basic idea is her commitment, and that of her supporters, to "adopt" the children who receive these Care Packs. In each Care Pack are postcards with the addresses of the donors requesting the families who receive the Care Packs to write in a month an update Back on Track as to their situation and location, so they can be shipped another Care Pack. By Tuesday night, Big Mama's Church of Portland, Oregon had taken Back on Track on as a mission . . . Join the group & get more info here. Send Care Packs here:

St Vincent DePaul Society
1010 Nicholson Drive
Baton Rouge LA 70802

Angela Alston Ross
P.O. Box 736
Ocean Springs, MS 39566

Ascension Lutheran Church
6481 Old Canton Rd
Jackson, MS 39211

Rhea MacDonald
1111 3rd St
Brookings, SD 57006