Our Best Year Ever: Pack A Purse 2011

Since 2007, JaMai has been collecting and delivering purses packed with personal care items to teenage girls in foster care, in group homes, and in homeless shelters.  Her project is known as Pack A Purse Holiday Drive.  Although JaMai was away at school until early December and I was unable to handle the physical tasks of organizing our 5^th Annual Pack A Purse Drive, 2011 was our best year ever.  This year another sponsor, The Maids of Maryland, came on board.  I want to take this opportunity to send a special thank you to The Maids of Maryland and Linda Crosby who were able to garner print and television media coverage and collect 578 purses at their host site.  They also delivered over 200 of those purses.  We would also like to send a shout out to Sabrina McLean who donated to Pack A Purse, served as a host site, and delivered purses to 3 organizations. Another heartfelt thank you goes to Cindy Freland who also donated to the holiday drive and served as a host site. A grand total of 735 purses were donated to the following organizations: