LifeNets Manhattan Project

 September 20, 2001 UPDATE

Launched September 15, 2001

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UPDATED September 20, 2001

The response from our Internet community for the Manhattan Project has been overwhelming!  In the first day we have received $1400 in pledges and donations for relief efforts in Manhattan. The first two contributions were from two employees of the UCG home office in Cincinnati, Ohio. Other pledges stretched from Hawaii to the Northwest, California, Pennsylvania, Florida New York and more.

I received a call from the Paducah, Kentucky Red Cross director Daniel Hopwood who offered LifeNets over $3000 worth of brand new equipment needed in the cleanup effort through a company called Falconite. He personally drove it to us Wednesday, September 19th.  The shipment  included :

        320 Goggles and Safety Glasses
        60 Rain Suites
        100 Rubber Boots (Steel Toed)
        100 Hard Hats

The Indianapolis Northeast (Castleton) Rotary Club donated $96 towards transportation of these and other items to New York City. 

Also we have received an offer from the Assistant Director of International Affairs at Butler University Deb Diallo who along with her husband Ben will drive the donated items right to ground zero and Greenwich Village in Manhattan.

September 19, 2001 Red Cross Delivery of New York City Bound Supplies

Peine and Kubik with sacks of hard hats bound for New York City Tom Peine Daniel Hopwood,   Director of the Paducah, Kentucky Red Cross chapter

Tom Peine moving items into temporary storage until shipment to NY Peine Engineering and the Red Cross working together to help New York City