My name is Jami Van Brocklin. I'm the founder & creator of Operation Return the Favor, which used to be a program under the wings of WUAH Foundation a few years ago. I'm also the wife of an Army soldier & mother of 2 wonderful kids. I started my program when my own husband was deployed to Iraq in 2006. I began my program to help the single soldiers returning home from war. That was when we were active duty. Now we are National Guard. I am starting my program back up this summer. I will be coordinating FREE events with Oxford Public Library & librarian "Barbara", for the spouses and children of deployed Alabama military men & women. These events will provide local resources for the families & fun activities for the spouses and children to enjoy. We will do crafts for them to keep or send to their soldier. We will also be raffling off a gift basket of relaxing items to one spouse at each event. These activities will continue throughout the local deployments. In order to make these activities successful, I will need help collecting the items needed. I expect 50-100 participants at each event.

Monetary donations are great, but I also need material donations, such as GIFT CARDS to Bath & Body Works, Walmart, Target, Kohls, etc. for the gift baskets, GIFT CARDS to Hobby Lobby (our local craft shop),
CRAFT SUPPLIES- paints, markers, crayons, construction paper, patriotic embellishments like stickers, appliques, etc., packs of MENS white t-shirts (LARGE & XL), fingerpaints, stationary & envelopes for writing letters, postage stamps for mailing letters & cards for spouses, craft kits, air-dry clay for making crafts to send, wood kits (ex. frames, shadow boxes, etc.); "NEW" GIFT BASKET ITEMS- bath products, makeup items, perfumes, candies, chocolates, jewelry, etc.; BOXES OR PACKS OF BLANK CARDS for spouses & children to write personal messages to their soldier & for participants to write thank you cards to other soldiers not related to them.

Wish Info

• Posted: Jun 1, 2012 10:40 am
  Granted: Oct 16, 2012

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• City: Munford
• State: Alabama
• Country: United States

• Type: Want
• Wish is for: Community
• Category: Hobbies & Crafts
• Cause: Military Personnel and Family

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