{"id":68682,"date":"2005-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/sending-support-overseas\/"},"modified":"2005-04-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T00:00:00","slug":"sending-support-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/04\/sending-support-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending support overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t溏心vlog免费B站 student coordinates care package program<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — April 28, 2005 — What do poker chips, Kool-Aid packets, puzzle books, and cookies have in common? They are all items included in the more than 100 care packages assembled by 溏心vlog免费B站 students last month that will be sent to American troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n


\n\tThird-year pharmacy major Kellye Loethen coordinated the \u201cCare Packages for Soldiers\u201d event, which involved 70 溏心vlog免费B站 students. \u201cI have a lot of friends from home who are serving overseas, and I thought it was important for the students to show their support of our troops,\u201d said Loethen, a resident of Kansas City, Mo.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe used the organization Any Soldier to help her reach the military. Any Soldier Inc., based in Maryland, provides the contacts and request lists for more than 3,000 soldiers in large units overseas. It also provides information on obtaining the necessary customs forms that must accompany each package in order to be shipped to Iraq. <\/p>\n


\nLoethen, who is a member of the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority and the philanthropy chair of the Panhellenic Council, first employed the help of the Greek system to assist her with the project, but then reached out to other on-campus organizations for financial aid and support. Besides the Panhellenic Council, organizations involved included the Student Alumni Association, the Student Entertainment Committee, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Student Senate, and the Model UN. \u201cIt is such a good cause that it was not difficult to get people to support it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\nStudents were asked to collect the snacks, toiletries, small games, and other comfort items. On the night of the event these items, along with personalized letters from Loethen and sorority members, were placed in shoeboxes to be sent overseas. In her letter, she included her email information, with the hopes that some soldiers will contact her and begin a correspondence. The boxes will arrive in Iraq next month.<\/p>\n


\n\tLoethen was very pleased with the student turnout. \u201cI think it says a lot about

\nour campus, that students were willing to show their support for the soldiers defending our country, even though not all of them agree with the war,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\nShe also would like to hold the event again next year; that is if troops are still in Iraq. \u201cI am hoping that IF the war is still going on then we will continue, of course, in an ideal world, the war would be over and there would be no need to send more packages.\u201d\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

溏心vlog免费B站 student coordinates care package program KINGSTON, R.I. — April 28, 2005 — What do poker chips, Kool-Aid packets, puzzle books, and cookies have in common? They are all items included in the more than 100 care packages assembled by 溏心vlog免费B站 students last month that will be sent to American troops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}