by Ann Perkins, LHI Utah Resettlement Manager
Author and LHI Utah Resettlement manager Anne with LHI Utah Director Traci, and Marvis, LHI Utah Foreign Aid manager are all thrilled to have more warehouse space!
Recently, we nearly doubled the square footage of the LHI Humanitarian Aid Warehouse in American Fork, Utah! This expansion means that we now have more space to organize housing set ups for resettled refugees that benefit from our Welcome Program. Also, the additional space lets us work on more international and border aid shipments simultaneously. This means that we are able to reach more refugees at home and abroad than ever before!
After a lot of hard work moving into our expanded warehouse space, we had an amazing open house to celebrate! We had hundreds of people show up with clothing to donate, furniture, blankets, and all sorts of supplies.
our first open house!
LHI's Director of Outreach Jessica welcomed hundreds of guests to the first annual LHI Humanitarian Aid Warehouse Open House in American Fork, UT on Saturday, September 21.
Jessica, LHI’s Director of Outreach, greeted guests at the door. Everyone that walked in was given a tour of the new Warehouse space by one of our volunteers, and invited to help work on kits and service projects at different stations and tables throughout the warehouse.
The kids loved making and decorating "You are loved" cards. We enclose these cards in our shipments to let beneficiaries know that we are thinking of them.
Visitors made 1,200 hygiene kits, 1400 school kits, stuffed 100 teddy bears, tied 50 blankets and made hundreds of “you are loved” cards and welcome signs.
Volunteers tied fleece fabric into cozy blankets that will keep beneficiaries all over the world warm!
Recently, 200 children who visit our Refugee Community Center in Serres, Greece received school kits just like these as they prepared for the start of the Greek school year.
We had Crumbl cookies for everyone and even held a raffle for a Kneaders gift basket and LHI swag bags that went to 10 lucky winners.
Thank you to Crumbl Cookies for providing volunteers with a well-deserved sweet treat!
We gave special thanks to eBay and the GCX4Good for generously donating supplies for all of the hygiene kits. We will definitely do an open house next year!
Thank you ebay and gcx4good! We couldn't have done it without you!