Buckner seeks supplies for international orphans

Posted: 6/08/07

Buckner seeks supplies
for international orphans

DALLAS—Humanitarian aid supplies are rapidly decreasing from the Buckner Center for Humanitarian Aid in Dallas, leaving orphanages without basic personal, medical, infant and educational supplies, officials with the agency reported.

Around 1,200 people will travel with Buckner on mission trips this year, and many of them fill backpacks or suitcases with supplies from the warehouse to distribute to the orphanages in which they will serve.

“Many bags are going to orphanages empty because our supplies are rapidly depleting,” said Matt Asato, Buckner humanitarian aid coordinator.

Buckner needs supplies for:

• Personal Hygiene—Tooth-paste, toothbrushes, lice shampoo and deodorant.

• Medical—Adhesive bandages, cotton-tipped swabs, antibiotic ointment, cotton balls, anti-itch cream, cough syrup, ibuprofen, child pain reliever, vitamins, infant pain reliever, stomach reliever, infant cold and allergy medicines, and antacid tablets.

• Infants—Baby powder, baby wipes, baby oil, diaper rash ointment and diapers. All of these are major needs, but “baby rash ointment is on top of the list for our baby homes in Guatemala and Africa,” Asato said.

• School & crafts supplies— Particularly watercolor markers, school scissors and construction paper.

All humanitarian aid supplies can be shipped or delivered to Buckner International Humanitarian Aid, 4830 Samuell Blvd., Dallas 75228.