UMCOR Sager Brown Issues Top Supply Needs

NEW YORK, March 31, 2006—UMCOR’s relief supply warehouse, the Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La., issued a new list of most needed relief supplies this week. The top two needs are not the standard kits, but specific cleaning and bedding items that are needed to fulfill requests after 2005’s many disasters. Interim Director Ted Warnock noted that relief supplies are needed in the following order:

    1. Cleaning Supplies
    3. Flood Buckets
    2. Bedding
    4. School Bags
    5. Layette Kits

Kits are a fun creative way to be involved in hands-on mission. People of all ages and abilities can be involved in assembling and shipping relief supplies to UMCOR

Cleaning Supplies

Item

Quantity
Bleach

two 1 quart or one 82 oz. bottle
All purpose cleaner (like Lysol)

32. oz. bottle
Liquid laundry detergent

Two 25 oz. or one 50 oz. bottle
Heavy duty trash bags

24-bag roll, 33-45 gallon
Scouring pads

Package
Paper towels

Rolls – any quantity

Insect repellant spray

6-14 oz. can
Dust mask respirators

Any quantity
Toilet paper

Any quantity
Sponge mops with replacement pads

Any quantity

Bedding

All bedding should be new and in its original packaging.

Item

Quantity

Flat double-bed sheets (full size)

Packages of 2

Pillow cases

Packages of 2

Pillows

Packages of 2