MOPS

From my cousin Kristi who dose this with her kids:

Encourage Military Moms and Their Families

A Little Love and Creativity Goes a Long Way

David, whose father is in the U.S. Air Force, is an elementary school student. His father deployed for the fifth time in July 2010 for six months. David received a KidsLink Card Kit, and he said: “[I'm going to write Dad] stuff that's interesting that's happened to me that I can't really tell him otherwise … I never got to talk to him when he was out in the desert [before] except once every two months, so it's going to be nice, ... [and] also he can write back. So it's going to be helpful a lot."

Last spring, over 250 MOPS groups were a part of creating over 5,300 KidsLink Downrange Card Kits for children of deployed military personnel. Those kits were distributed to five different U.S. military installations around the U.S. and one in Germany. Now your MOPS group can be a part of expanding this project again to reach out to more families!

KidsLink Downrange is a project from MOPS and Cadence International to support and encourage military moms and their families. MOPS groups can make card kits that contain everything a child needs to write to his or her deployed parent throughout the year, as well as other resources in the area. These kits will be delivered to children at multiple US military bases worldwide this coming spring.

Here is this year’s schedule!

September-October 2010: Your MOPS group pledges a number of kits
December 2010: You’re advised where to ship your finished
kits (via email and on kidslinkonline.org
website)
January-February 2011: Your group makes card kits
February 15-March 15, 2011: Your group ships your kits to the advised
location (no earlier than Feb. 15 and no
later than March 15)
April-June 2011: Card kits are distributed to military kids

Now is the time to pledge how many kits you will make for this year’s project so…

Be a Link and Pledge!

Want to know more? Watch this video, then pledge the number of card kits your group will create and send to military kids.

http://www1.mops.org/web/email_blast/email_blast_web.php?appeal_code=mim100925kld&email=kristilaroo@yahoo.com