【北卡新闻】 NC BLOOM 11月9日首次肯尼亚打包捐赠物活动 *鲸波万里，一苇可航

For more than ten years, Lydia has been caring about her impoverished home country and has been donating daily necessities, food and clothing from the United States to Kenya. NC BLOOM, a newly established youth-led nonprofit organization in North Carolina, learned about Lydia's deeds and sent its first volunteers Cindy, Chris and Enock to help her.
At 11 A.M., the volunteers, coming from different places, gathered at Lydia’s house. Their task today is to pack all the collected items according to shipping specifications. In Lydia's backyard, they first unfolded the flattened cardboard into boxes, then taped the edges of the boxes, and put in quilts (to protect fragile items) and waterproof cloths (because the donations would be transported via waterway) to cover the walls and bottom of the box. They added donations step by step and compressed as much as possible until the boxes were full.

To further protect the donations, they also tore pieces of cardboard to fill the edges of the boxes. After compressing and closing the box, they wrapped it with waterproof tape, and tied it tightly with thick hemp rope. An accident occurred during this time: in order to save shipping costs, each box was filled to the limit and required vigorous compression to seal. As a result, a box bursted under the heavy pressure and could no longer be used, but the volunteers were not discouraged; they transferred all items to a new box, learned their lesson, and continued to work hard.