From Nov. 10-12, MooreMart volunteers met at the Nashua National Guard Armory to collect donated supplies and pack and ship care packages to members of the armed services in the Middle East.
MooreMart is a nonprofit volunteer organization that was founded in 2004 by Paul and Carole Moore as a way of showing their support for their brother, Brian, who at that time had been deployed to the Middle East with the New Hampshire National Guard.
On Nov. 12, MooreMart volunteers passed their previous record of 3,911 care packages in 2010 by packing and shipping 4,589 care packages at the Nashua Armory.
The care packages were shipped to 1,840 members of the armed services from New Hampshire serving in the Middle East, to members of the armed services from throughout the United States serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, to retired veterans living at the Tilton retirement home, veterans in transition staying at Liberty House in Manchester, Buckingham Place and Dalianis House in Nashua as well as the Veterans Hospital in Manchester.
MooreMart also shipped care packages to hospitalized veterans at Walter Reed Hospital and Bethesda Medical Center in Washington, D.C., as well as to the chaplainâs office to be distributed to orphanages throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Office in Iraq and Afghanistan to be distributed to any servicemen or women who arrived in the Middle East during Christmas week to ensure that they have a care package and Christmas stocking waiting.
Novemberâs packing event brings the total number of care packages shipped by MooreMart to 43,417 and humanitarian aid to schools and orphanages in Iraq and Afghanistan to 4.1 tons.
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