Please send Hygiene Kits
“Waste to Charity is not asking for your money. We are not in the area of disaster relief, but
when our country was facing such an obvious failure of those agencies, we felt compelled to
act. Each of our preexisting programs will continue, but we will do whatever we can to help
keep the focus on this National Emergency.
We are asking anyone with the means to do so to purchase items themselves, and send to the
staging area.

We Ask that you send HELP DIRECTLY to THE Victims!
Send by USPS, UPS, FED EX, DHL, or Courier.

An estimated 40,000 Evacuees are waiting for your help In Baton Rouge alone. Let's give them some of the comforts of home. Our people on the ground are asking for the following:

• Diapers (Infant, Children and Adult) , Pull-ups, Goodnites, Huggie Overnites, or equivalents.
• Toiletries, shampoo, soap, deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste, tampons
• Canned juices, baby formula, baby food, pacifiers
• Bras and underwear ( children and adult, Xl, xxl, xxl in need)
• Newly packaged aspirin or pain relievers
• Coloring books and crayons
• Flashlights with batteries, radios with batteries
• Soap, shampoo, mosquito repellent and antibiotic ointment, A&D ointment, Diaper rash ointment.
• Plastic food Storage Containers of all sizes.

Please Pack in Sturdy Boxes for easy distribution.

Send the Hygiene Kits to is:

W2C/OpComp/Maranatha Fellowship
1433 Sharp Lane
Baton Rouge, La 70815

May god bless each and every one of you, and keep the victims of this catastrophe out of harms way.

The people of Waste to Charity, Operation Compassion, and over 400 other charities and churches thank you for your help. I thank you for enabling Waste to Charity to help so many. Sincerely Yours,

Jack Fitzgerald, President"

Sep 20, 2005 05:20 ET

Waste to Charity.org & Operation Compassion Combine to Collect & Deliver Hurricane Katrina Relief Supplies

WOODBURY, N.J., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste to Charity.org and Operation Compassion combine to collect and deliver relief to Hurricane Katrina victims, with the participation of 400 charities and churches.

Waste to Charity.org has specialized in encouraging businesses to donate excess inventory, for 6 years. Operation Compassion currently operates 35 disaster relief sites throughout the stricken area. See http://www.wastetocharity.org/.

Businesses of all sizes are best positioned to help by donating useable inventories, according to Jack Fitzgerald, founder of Waste to Charity.org.

"While our major support comes from companies which donate obsolete, excess or overstock inventory, we are encouraging individuals to join our efforts by creating hygiene kits," Fitzgerald says.

"We ask that these kits contain newly purchased items only, be packaged in boxes, and sent to our forward positions." See http://www.wastetocharity.org/.

Operation Compassion's thirty-five disaster relief sites distribute food, water and emergency relief supplies. Waste to Charity.org is calling on all donors to help to fill their immediate needs.

Some of the relief sites are providing hot meals and serve as many as twelve hundred people for each meal daily. Waste to Charity.org has provided mattresses, cleaning supplies and other essential items.

Contributions can be arranged with Waste to Charity, by visiting http://www.wastetocharity.org/donations.htm.

Source: Waste to Charity.org

CONTACT: Jack Fitzgerald of Waste to Charity.org, +1-941-355-9609 (9-5),
or +1-941-284-6892 (24hrs), jack@wastetocharity.org

Web site: http://www.wastetocharity.org/

NOTE TO EDITORS: Jack Fitzgerald available for interview. Photos are available.