If you want to clear out some old toys to make room for new ones, I’d like to remind you about this worthy cause.
** Updated *** As of February 2010, this mailing address is current:
Chaplain – Camp Warrior
FOB Warrior – Kirkuk
Toys for the Iraqi Children
APO AE 09359
It is free to order a mailer kit from USPS and it will be delivered to your house. After you pack it up, the postal rates are similar/same as sending a care package anywhere in the continental US.
We packed ours full of some of my husband’s old stuffed toys (his family had a “tradition” of giving him stuffed toys every year that he never even touched!) and some of Holden’s gently-used little stuffed animals and doodads. I’m also opened it up to my mama-friends and sent some of their goodies too.
Asha from Parent Hacks asked us to spread the word about sending our used stuffed animals and toys to children in Iraq. She was recently contacted by a member of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers stationed in Iraq who offered to distribute any and all toys she receives. She has been pleased at the outpouring of toys and gifts so far, but I know we all have more to send.
Read more about Edmay Mayers’ passion for the Iraqi children and also about Asha’s toy drive.
If you don’t have any toys on-hand to send right now, consider buying up a few little ones from Oriental Trading Company and sending them directly.
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Hi,
I have a huge amount of toys and kids clothing to donate. But I don’t have money to ship it off. Do you know of any organizations that will pay for the shipping or pick up the toys and clothing? i need to give them up within 2 weeks and want it to go to the neediest!! Please help me My contact # 347-754-4292- charmaine
is the February address still valid now in December, 2010? what’s the correct address to mail some new and gently used stuffed animal? do you know how much the postage may be?
I too am wondering if the program is still going and what address to send stuffed animals too.
Are you still accepting donations of stuffed animals for Iraq children?
Has anyone used this address in 2011? I have a ton of stuffed animals I want to send, but don’t want them sent back to me.
To get a good address to send stuffed animals to do the following:
goto anysailor.com then click on the tiny print under the title Any Sailor. The tiny print you want to click on says Where to send. In the drop down list pick Any Sailor Addresses. On this page there is a form click on the Search tool in red and type “stuffed animals”. A list of service members comes up that have mentioned stuffed animals either as a request or as a thank you. I have found the Navy contacts are the ones with medical clinics that are looking for stuffed animals and toys to hand out to the small patients/children they operate on. Click on the service members name and find out if they are one that you would want to send your stuffed animals to and if so request the address for the member.
Do you still need donations of stuffed animals as of September 2011?
I was just wondering if you can still donate stuffed animals to that same address in Iraq. I have so many perfectly good stuffed animals.
I would like to donate stuffed animals. please tell me how.
Is there a size limit?
thank you
Kathy
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