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Current Teddy Bear "Missions"
We collect and distribute new Teddies (and other new stuffed animals) all year.
Please keep 'em comin'! Send NEW "fuzzy hugs" or financial donations to:

USPS only!
Operation TeddyCare
POB 790
Freeland, WA 98249-0790		 UPS or FED-X only!
Operation TeddyCare
c/o Sound Business Center
18205 State Route 525
Freeland, WA 98249

Feel free to attach notes of care and concern to your Teddy Bears. Or make us cards to attach to bears.

Here is just one of latest groups of military kids to get your Teddies --
these kids' folks were sent to Afghanistan.
They were treated to a fun day at the M Bar C Ranch where they each got a Teddy Bear.

military kids

 

Email us anytime with any questions, requests, or ideas. Please make your tax-deductible financial donations payable to Operation TeddyCare, or use our secure PayPal donation system.

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(If shipping to the East Coast saves you money, send your Teddy Bears to our terrific sister organization Hugs Across America)

OTC collects Teddy Bears for hospitalized children. These children have life-threatening illnesses. Some will never leave the hospital. If you would like your bears to go to this cause, mark your shipping box "Hospitals."

Son CJ
Dr. Bear
Like father like son! Dad "Dr. Bear" Baker (right) and son CJ deliver bears to Seattle Children's Hospital, Dec. 2011.
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There are a number of police and fire departments in America requesting small Teddy Bears to be given to scared or injured kids at accident, fire, or crime scenes. If you would like your bears to go to this cause, mark your shipping box "Emergencies."

We try to keep 1,000 Teddy Bears on hand so when disaster strikes, they can be shipped out immediately to disaster counselors. If you can help, mark your shipping box "Disaster Bears." They will be "first-responders" in the event of another manmade or natural disaster.

 

Important notice: We have heard recently from some of you that organizations with names similar to ours have purported to be collecting donations of money and/or toys with questionable results. The best way to make sure you are dealing with us is to send donations directly to our two addresses on this page, or use our secure PayPal system. And make sure the charity is Operation TeddyCare (a registered trademark) if you are trying to find us. If in doubt, please email us first! If you send us something and don't hear from us in a timely fashion, again feel free to email! We are all-volunteer.

 


 

 

  


Military Kids Need Your Fuzzy Hugs!

With new deployments to Afghanistan, we are getting regular requests for Teddy Bears for the children of deploying parents. We also provide certificates of appreciation that thank the kids for being "brave and helpful at home." We need Teddy Bears and shipping funds to continue this effort!!!!!

"Wounded servicemembers have wounded family members," says Michelle Joyner of the National Military Family Association (NMFA)...

Our Teddy Bear drive for military families continues as long as troops are deployed in harm's way. Mark your shipping box "Military kids" (read some thank you letters) Cudos to reporter Donna Miles of the American Forces Press Service for this article that started it all: Group Seeks Teddy Bears for Military Kids
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We collect new Teddy Bears 365 days a year.
If you are a member of ATSS or NOVA and you need free Teddy Bears for use in trauma work anywhere in the world, please email us. Tell us where to ship them and how many you need.


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