In 2009, Ryan Housely the founder of HeroBox, was recognized nationally by "People" magazine and Major League Baseball at the All-Star game in St. Louis. In two years, HeroBox says it has sent more than 10,000 of the packages to service …
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HeroBox Struggles to Get Packages to Troops
Updated: Friday, 19 Nov 2010, 6:56 PM EST
Published : Friday, 19 Nov 2010, 6:49 PM EST
By: DOUG EVANS/myfoxatlanta
ATLANTA - Hard times have forced the HeroBox organization form its offices and now the charity works form a storage building as it builds care packages and sends them to troops overseas.
"The need right now is monetary donations.” said Ryan Housely.
Each HeroBox contains food, hygiene items and small supplies. All of the items in the boxes are donated by major contributors and school children from across the country. Starbucks donates thousands of packages instant coffee.
Coupled with a decline in cash donations as well as the rising cost of postage, the charity worries it will fall far short of its goal of sending 1,000 care packages to the troops by Christmas.
"We have thousands of soldiers in our data base. We have thousands of items. We have volunteers to pack them. But we don’t have the money to ship them because the postage is 10, 11 12 dollars a box. We need monetary donations right now to ship these off to the troops," said Housely.
In 2009, Housely the founder of HeroBox, was recognized nationally by "People" magazine and Major League Baseball at the All-Star game in St. Louis.
In two years, HeroBox says it has sent more than 10,000 of the packages to service men and women.
Housely says he has noticed a trend that appears as if public support for military charities has declined as the war in Afghanistan drags on.
"We have seen the support slip off the table over the past year because people think they are coming home, and they are not, they are not coming home. They are still over there. They are still away from their loved ones and they still need the support more than ever,” Housely said.
For more information on HeroBox and how you can help, go to http://www.herobox.org/ .
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