Ohio Conference
United Church of Christ 

Disaster Response Kits

Making kits is a great project for:

Sunday school classes of all ages

Men's and women's groups

Mother-daughter banquet mission

It's crucial to get the "right stuff" in your kits!   Click here for our suggestion for how to go about it.

Cleaning Kits

Personal Care Kits

Delivering kits to Church World Service distribution center in Indiana to help people affected
by Midwest floods in 2008.

The kits you have provided have helped thousands of people
recover from disasters.

Your help is needed to restock our supply of disaster response kits.
We are replenishing our supply of cleaning kits so that we will be ready to respond when the next need occurs.  Easy instructions for assembling cleaning kits are below.  This is a great project for a Sunday School class, youth group, men's or women's group.  Your help is needed.

One of the ways our Disaster Response Team ministers to people who have experienced a disaster is to provide them with personal care and cleaning kits. 

Below is the "recipe" that you are asked to follow to assemble the kits.  Click here for photos of the ingredients.  The need is great, and we can never have too many on hand.

Before you make cleaning kits . . . 

The Disaster Response Team is very grateful that the thousands of kits donated have allowed us to help so many people.  We are dedicated to providing the best help possible, so Team members check each kit and replace items that are not on the ingredient list.  Please help us to provide the best quality kits possible and make the best use of our time and resources by providing "the right stuff."

Getting 'the right stuff' in your cleaning kits

A way for you to be sure that the kits your group assembles contain the needed items is to request cash donations, purchase quantities of each item (possible cost savings), and hold a "kit assembly party" to put them together.  Thank you for making this ministry possible.

Each Cleaning Kit includes:

• A large container of Clorox Cleanup* disinfectant cleaner

• A scrub brush

• A wire, metal cleaning brush**

• A pair of rubber gloves

• A large heavy duty sponge

• Some plastic trash bags

• A common household bucket

• A personal note

* Please include this specific brand of cleaner. Other cleaners contain more water. Most of our kit storage areas are unheated. Other cleaners freeze, the containers break and then leak when thawing occurs, damaging or ruining other kits. Also, please note that this is not Clorox bleach.

** A metal cleaning brush is needed; grill cleaning brushes are not effective.  Brushes that you find in grocery stores are usually not the type needed. You will find effective metal brushes with painting supplies in home improvement stores.

Click here to see photos of the ingredients in an effective cleaning kit.
   

• A bar of soap

• A wash cloth and hand towel

• A disposable razor

• A small container of shave cream

• Six band-aids

• A tooth brush

• A small tube of tooth paste

• A comb

• A small container of deodorant

• A nail file

• A personal note

Appropriate boxes for your kits will be delivered to you.  
Contact the Conference office to let us know how many boxes you will need 
and for information about getting your completed kits to a storage area.  

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