by Annie Griffiths Belt for Church World Service

Courtesy of Brethren Disaster Ministries

Relief Kits

Anyone can assemble relief kits at any time of year. The Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Maryland accepts kits year round on behalf of Church World Service, where they’re stored until disaster strikes. Then, they’re shipped from New Windsor to disaster sites in the U.S. and around the world.

Your support of this program helps to ensure that enough Kits are ready to go immediately, whenever and wherever they’re needed most.

Assemble a kit

See members of one district in action assembling clean-up and school kits (video of Southern Ohio bucket project or Powerpoint of Southern Ohio district work night--4.5 MB). The group assembled 400 clean-up kits in an hour after preparing the day before.

School kit (link to Church World Service instructions)

Hygiene kit (link to Church World Service instructions)

Baby care kit (link to Church World Service instructions)

Emergency clean-up bucket kit (link to Church World Service instructions)

Bulletin Insert

Church World Service Kit Appeal (PDF)