Beyond Orders
July 3rd, 2007
Happy 4th of July! Regardless of how you feel about the legitimacy of our current military activities, we always like to focus on the efforts of US service members seeking to make a positive difference in the lives of the people they encounter overseas.
Beyond Orders was founded by a group of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan whose goal is to make it easy, secure, and efficient for US service members to request items needed by Iraqi communities from anyone in America willing and able to assist.
By logging on to the website, you can either make an offer for items you can send to Iraq or find an item requested by a service member. If there’s a match, you will receive an Army Postal Office mailing address that you can use to mail the items to Iraq just as if you were mailing within the US.
Once the service member receives the donation, he or she will post feedback on how the items were used to help Iraqi communities.
Here’s just one example of a request for soccer balls and small toys:
Think of it as an eHarmony for good deeds! Log in today and find out how you can help the effort to rebuild Iraq in a truly positive way!
July 4th, 2007 at 7:00 am
This is awesome!
Happy 4th to you, too!