Help Baghdad's schools (and Sgt. Rock)

“I saw Sgt. Rock's post on whiteblaze.net and thought I'd put in a link here. Helping out could benefit some of Baghdad's kids and help get a few more American's home healthy and un-unjured:

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2485" target="_blank"> Sgt. Rock's thread ”

“I'm going to forward this to the 18 school districts I represent. We'll see what comes of it.”

“pedxing,thanks for posting something positive about a bad situation. I'll pass the word around see what happens.”

“tell me who i need to contact about this. we do things like this at church ALL the time - school kits for international aid, newborn kits, etc. i may be able to get some school kits kits put together, or at least get leads on what kind of supplies are usually most needed.”

“Good question... I was just thinking of posting something on his thread, but a contact address would help. I posted the question there at WhiteBlaze.net.”

“Some contact information and more details would be helpful. I can pass it along also.”

“www.hikinghq.net I think there is contact info on Sgt Rocks site. His wife (Dixicritter) is running the show in his absence so she could prolly help with that info. Streamweaver”

“This is the email address listed on Sgt. Rock's website: sgtrock@hikinghq.net(I'm not sure if its the best).”

“St. Rock's wife posted the following contact/donation point info on whiteblaze.net:

Supporting Schools

Last week the commander asked for help in a new initiative to support Iraqi schools. A lot of people have expressed an interest and have been asking how to go about doing this.

First the kids could probably use some of the following items: pencils, pens, paper, calculators, English/Arabic dictionaries, scissors, glue, crayons, markers, coloring books, chalk (for the teachers), and any other school supplies you can think of like folders and such.

To get the supplies here for now, you can mail them to:

CPT Mescall / School Program
G/2/2 ACR
Unit 92378
APO AE 09322-2378

Please write us and tell us about your school (if you are representing one) and what kind of school you are interested in supporting – we have 50 different schools and feel that we can help by coordinating schools of similar types to be partners. We will set partner schools if you are interested using the US postal system for now since the Iraqi postal system is still not working at an acceptable level. We hope to set up some long-term contact between Americans and Iraqis.

Some businesses have also expressed interest in helping financially as well as sending supplies, or to send money to buy supplies instead of wasting a large part of the money on postage. We will look into how we can do this, but for now we would rather not handle money.”