I was going to do some paperwork after lunch but decided to sit and rest. Made a quick dinner and met a couple ladies from church to discuss the newly formed Ladies Ministry at church for a couple hours. Rachel was with Jess until Jon got home.
Here are answers to Becky's questions
I received today regarding the rubbermaids
that I send to Lois in Haiti:
Why do you have to make a hole in the containers? Rubbermaid lids (we use the Rough tote ones)snap down but there needs to be a way to make it harder for someone to steal the stuff inside. Zip ties are used to secure the lid to the rubbermaids and tightened so that it makes it quite hard to open. (That goes for Lois, too. When she gets her boxes she needs to disinfect them then spends quite a bit of time getting the lids off!).
What kind of things do you all send? If Lois were to live in the Capital of Haiti, she would have access to most anything she needed for her personal use or ministry. Being in the north of Haiti in a small town, items need to be shipped in. If she buys in the closest town, items cost more than she could afford. When she buys on line and sends then to me or when she is home, she purchases items for herself that she feels she would need for at least a year, such as clothes, toiletries, some foods, etc. She also buys quite a lot of items that are used in the Child Evangelism ministry she is involved in. All the rubbermaids are cleaned and reused in the CEF office for storage, or sold to other people who need reliable storage containers.
An Added Note: Shipping companies have changed over the years and sometimes the rubbermaids would take 3-6 months to arrive in her port. (Can you imagine realizing you forgot something, or ran out of it early, and then had to wait months for it to arrive?) The current ship's owner has a much quicker turn around and she has gotten boxes in a little over a month or two. That is a real blessing.
this is so interesting. thanks for letting me know how it works.
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