On March 15 and 22, 2008 our Troop participated in the Scouting for Food drive. This is a very important service project for the Troop and for Scouts in general, helping hundreds of families in King County with basic food supplies via food banks. The food donations we collected went to Hopelink.
In addition to the Scouting for Food project, under the leadership of Life Scout, Rahul Brito, the Troop also held a parallel drive collecting simple school supplies (paper note pads, pencils with erasers, pencil sharpeners, colored construction paper, and crayons) for children in Iraq. A minimum of (4) 27-cubic-foot boxes of school supplies will be shipped via the U.S. Army to Baghdad for distribution by the Aegis Foundation. Aegis will then distribute the supplies to children in nine different cities throughout the country - Baghdad, Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul, Tikrit, Kirkuk, Diwayniyah, Nasiriyah and Basra. This project has the potential to provide an education and possibly the opportunity for a better life to hundreds of Iraqi children; in addition, that this project will help further the friendship between the people of Iraq and of the United States.
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