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Health kits

Health kits are often presented to children living in refugee camps who do not have access to hygiene supplies. Some are given to women in rural education centers to encourage health care. People in such countries as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine have received health kits in the past few years.
 
Contents (NEW items only)
  • 1 toothbrush (adult size; leave in wrapper)
  • 1 squeeze-tube toothpaste (minimum 130ml / 6oz; leave in box)
  • 1 large bar of bath soap
  • 1 fingernail clipper
  • 1 hand towel (larger than fingertip, dark color)
 
Health kits are distributed in a useful double drawstring cloth bag (28cm x 40.6cm / 11in x 16in). You may sew the bag yourself (instructions), request bags from an MCC collection center or donate contents that we will place in a bag. Drop off completed health kits at one of the drop-off locations in Canada or the U.S.