Mennonite
Central
Committee

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, Haiti, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine have received health kits in the past few years. In 2006, MCC sent more than 63,000 health kits.

Health kit shipments

 

Contents (NEW items only)

• 1 toothbrush (adult size; leave in wrapper)
• 1 squeeze-tube toothpaste (minimum 130ml / 6oz; leave in box)
• 1 bar soap (110-140g / 4-5oz, in wrapper)
• 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 (How to make Kit Bags), 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.