Backpack Counter (as of 25 April 2011): 2636 sent to Sendai! 日本語版はこちらです
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Camp Zama -- Operation Backpacks for Japan:
Kids helping Kids!
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*** Please see below for updated list of needed supplies ***
***We need supplies for girls and boys ages 8~18***
The Scouts of Camp Zama, Japan: Camp Zama Girl Scouts, Cub Scout Pack #34, Boy Scout Troop #34 are organizing the collection and assembling of comfort backpacks.
Our mission is to provide comfort and a message of love to the kids of Japan who have lost everything in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. We will distribute the packs after transportation and mail delivery becomes available in the affected areas. Members of our community are in Sendai, Japan, directly helping with relief efforts. The will personally help distribute the backpacks for our Scouts. Thanks to the 35th CSSB and the Joint Support Force Japan -- Forward Command Element, we have now started delivering backpacks!
We will include a short note letting our Japanese friends know about all the people involved and where the donations originated. Join us!
We will collect packs & items until 30 April 2011.
Please email us at zamagirlscouts@gmail.com if you have any questions.
You may also call +81-80-3438-5306 (from Japan, 080-3438-5306) (English only).
Items can be mailed to: From Japan:
USA Girl Scouts-Zama 〒２５２－００２７
Attn: April Snyder 神奈川県座間市
GDS Box 62 キャンプ座間
APO AP 96337-9998 533 ビル ＃203
Camp Zama Girl Scouts
Tel： 046 (407) 3597
See articles!
See delivery pictures!
*** Please see below for updated list of needed supplies ***
***We need supplies for girls and boys ages 8~18***
The Scouts of Camp Zama, Japan: Camp Zama Girl Scouts, Cub Scout Pack #34, Boy Scout Troop #34 are organizing the collection and assembling of comfort backpacks.
Our mission is to provide comfort and a message of love to the kids of Japan who have lost everything in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. We will distribute the packs after transportation and mail delivery becomes available in the affected areas. Members of our community are in Sendai, Japan, directly helping with relief efforts. The will personally help distribute the backpacks for our Scouts. Thanks to the 35th CSSB and the Joint Support Force Japan -- Forward Command Element, we have now started delivering backpacks!
We will include a short note letting our Japanese friends know about all the people involved and where the donations originated. Join us!
We will collect packs & items until 30 April 2011.
Please email us at zamagirlscouts@gmail.com if you have any questions.
You may also call +81-80-3438-5306 (from Japan, 080-3438-5306) (English only).
Items can be mailed to: From Japan:
USA Girl Scouts-Zama 〒２５２－００２７
Attn: April Snyder 神奈川県座間市
GDS Box 62 キャンプ座間
APO AP 96337-9998 533 ビル ＃203
Camp Zama Girl Scouts
Tel： 046 (407) 3597
Thank you everyone for such fantastic support and generous donations! We are entering the final stretch --- please see the updated list of needed items. If you have not finalized your donation, please focus on the needed items highlighted below.
Each backpack we send contains 4 "categories" of supplies: warm items, hygiene supplies, toys/games/writing supplies, and snacks. We received a large donation of backpacks, so we no longer need empty packs.
Items we need as of 22 April are: WARM ITEMS:
HYGIENE SUPPLIES:
TOYS/GAMES/WRITING SUPPLIES:
SNACKS:
"EXTRAS"
We are no longer accepting clothes (new or used); however, we DO NEED new underwear and socks of all sizes. Please indicate whether your backpack is for a girl, boy, or either sex. Also indicate the general age. Children of ALL ages (infants to teenagers) have been affected. The backpack can be a clean, used backpack or a new one. The backpack should be something you would want to receive! | Not at Camp Zama? Not able to purchase items and/or backpacks?
Here are some ideas on how your Family, Unit, Troop, Den, Group can help:
1,000 Cranes Thousand Origami Cranes is a group of one thousand origami paper cranes held together by strings. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. The crane in Japan is one of the mystical or holy creatures, and is said to live for a thousand years. In Japan, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person's wish come true. We would like to string as many cranes as possible to send throughout Japan! This is great inexpensive project that can be done indoors. If you do not have access to origami paper, make your own! - 10" square paper is good for younger children. - 6" square paper is standard. - 3" square paper if for expert origami folders. Visit http://www.en.origami-club.com/traditional/crane/index.html for instructions on how to make a paper crane. We will include a note with each set of 1,000 cranes to let our Japanese friends know where the cranes were made. |
Making Backpacks....
 Lining up.... |  Which toy should I choose for my backpack friend? |
The Scouts of Zama!
Delivering Backpacks...!
 Our Japan Self Defense Force partners. |  Notice the rubble (and car!) in the background. This school, currently serving as an evacuation center, was flooded by the tsunami. |
Marines and Soldiers hand out backpacks.
