Disney VoluntEAR

Last weekend, Mr.E and I decided to volunteer for Disney's Give a Day, Get a Day. You have to sign up for a volunteer activity in your area and in turn they'll send you a FREE day to any Disney park. Since we live in Florida, we took the opportunity to get a day.....Disney's not cheap!!!!

We volunteered for Give A Kid A Backpack. It's an organization that receives donated new backpacks, school supplies, and toiletries. They put them together and then send them off to Central America students.

However when we got there, we ended up working with another organization that shares warehouse space with GaKaB. They get all the used soap and toiletries from hotels and repurify them and package them then sending them to 3rd world countries. Our job that day was to help organize and pack. The charity usually deals with soap, but since the Haiti earthquake, they had been receiving tons of supplies to be shipped there. We had to organize medical supplies, baby supplies, household goods, toiletries, and other misc stuff onto pallets. I should have taken a before picture because there was SO MUCH stuff filling up the entire corner of this huge warehouse. Here is the outcome though. We worked hard!!

After we finished we headed over to the GaKaB section and helped them out. I got smarter and took a few more pictures ;) Here is the assembly line of volunteers stuffing toiletries for the backpacks. Next we stuffed the toiletries and school supplies in the backpacks and put them back in the boxes to be shipped off.Mr.E's main job was to tape the boxes and get them on the pallet. My job was to keep count of the number of backpacks on each pallet. In total the volunteers packed and stuffed 734 backpacks!!! For just a few hours of work, we will have helped at least a 1000 people with all the supplies to Haiti and the backpacks for the kids! Awesome feeling!!!