OPERATION BACKPACK

We are currently in the process of filling over 2000 backpacks and duffel bags to give to the Afghan school kids. This is proving to be one of our biggest logistical challenges.

This must be done during our "down" time, and there isn't much of that. Each backpack or duffel must be unwrapped from its packaging, unzipped and then put through an assembly line of packers. Here you see backpacks waiting to be stripped of their internal packaging, which consists of a lot of useless cardboard and plastic.

Each packer has an assigned task. One person is in charge of pens and pencils, another handles crayons, another handles notebook paper, and so on. Then a person has to zip up the backpack or duffel and place it back into a box for shipment. As you can see, this is a very labor intensive process.

Two days of work and we've only been able to stuff about 800. Here you see the stuffed backpacks that have been "re-boxed." These are now ready to be delivered.

See all of those boxes in the back? Those are the duffel bags that we haven't even unpacked yet.

This is going to take a while.