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So
little can help so much
HILCO
Electric Cooperative is continuing to fulfill some of the wishes
of our soldiers in Iraq. Through our contact with U.S. Army Major
Steven G. Hopper in Tikrit, Iraq, we are sending much needed items
for our soldiers. We hope you can help.
The
“United Through Reading® Project” is a program of the Family Literacy
Foundation, working in
partnership with the U.S.O. The USO donated equipment such as
cameras, video equipment, DVDs, children's books, etc. to this
program running at COB Spiecher in Iraq, so soldiers on deployment
there can be recorded while reading storybooks to their children.
The DVDs are then sent back home to their children. Even though
they are on the other side of the world, the children back home
can still have a bedtime story read to them by Mom or Dad. For
more information about the Family Literacy Foundation and the
United Trough Reading®
Program, please visit their website at www.read2kids.org.
“The
Hospital Project” is gathering items to send to soldiers
recovering from minor injuries or illness in the 399th Combat
Support
Hospital
in Tikrit,
Iraq. The soldiers who are confined to the
hospital units for several days have requested entertainment
listed items below to serves as a brief
diversion to help them pass the time.
Please help us spread the word about these
projects to your families, friends, co-workers, churches, etc.
Your donation will be appreciated by our soldiers and their
families back home.
The
soldiers have asked for Playstation Portables
with an assortment of games, DVD Games/Playstations,
Laptops with wireless connections (802.11),
blank DVDs, wireless routers, Proxima (projector
unit) for nightly movies in wards, portable DVD
players, and children's books for ages 0-10. If
you can help, please send these items directly
to
Major
Steven G. Hopper
25th ID, G8 Unit
#72111
APO
AE 09393
COB
Speicher
Major
Hopper may also be contacted at steven.g.hopper@us.army.mil. |
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Children follow along with their bedtime story as Dad
reads from the same book on a DVD from Tikrit, Iraq.
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These soldiers in Tikrit we thrilled to receive
portable DVD players sent by Texas Electric Cooperatives
in Austin, Mid-South Synergy in Navasota; Holcim U.S.,
Inc. in Midlothian. The players will be used by patients
in the 399th Combat Support hospital.
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Sometimes, all it takes is a small gesture of
kindness to put a smile on the face of a wounded soldier. |
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