Truck and Storage

This warms my heart. The more people I tell about this *crazy-hair-brained* idea of mine, the more people want to help out. I have recruited some wonderful people and think we will be ready to get this thing off the ground very soon:-) Once people (or organizations) offer to help out, I will add them to the list of "Helpers" on the right, with their permission, of course.

I think that the collecting of gifts part will be easy. Right now, the most difficult part will be securing a truck and a storage facility. A Penske alone will run about $2,000. While I am willing to pay for this, I think my money would be better spent at Toys-R-Us. If anyone has any connections or resources that would enable us to get a truck or storage facility in the Metropolitan Washington DC area, it would be a HUGE help. Once we have this in place, we will be ready to hit the ground running!

I have also heard from and contacted people in Louisiana who are willing to do some ground work there regarding the receiving and distributing of the gifts to the children. My mom heard from a friend whose church usually begins (about now) collecting gifts for under-priveleged children. As with many organizations down there right now, their resources are tapped. They are merely trying to take care of the sick and homeless in the streets right now and surely do not have the time or energy to think about Christmas. To that, I say: Ms. Jeannie, you just keep doing what you are doing and you let DC handle Christmas this year.