Operation TeddyCare®:
Helping Kids Bear Adversity
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What is bearapy?
Please send new
Teddy Bears
for kids worldwide! This grassroots effort works because YOU care.

What's happening
May 2008

Need Teddy Bears?

Thanks to our donors for contributing generously with shipping funds and Teddies.
Eight Ways YOU Can Help!

certificate Your "fuzzy hugs" comforted kids as their loved ones in the U.S. Army's 40th Signal Battalion deployed to Iraq. In some cases, both parents were deployed... children also received OTC certificates for being "brave and helpful" at home. homecoming

1. Ship new Teddy Bears or financial contributions to:

(for USPS, FedX only!)

Operation TeddyCare
POB 790
Freeland, WA
98249-0790

(for UPS only!)

Operation TeddyCare
c/o MicroManager
1614 E. Main Street
Freeland, WA 98249

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

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2. Drop off new Teddy Bears on Whidbey Island, WA:
Skagit Valley College (in Clinton)
Whidbey View Homes Real Estate (in Coupeville)
Micromanager (in Freeland)

3. Donate shipping funds through
Amazon's Honor System. Amazon Honor System Click Here to Pay Learn More

email questions and ideas to: operationteddycare@yahoo.com

Operation TeddyCare is a registered 501.C3 charity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

4. Buy collectibles to help our shipping fund. (We also have a store to benefit critters in need!)

5. Donate collectibles for us to sell for our shipping fund.

6. Make a bequest in your will.

7. Donate a vehicle Your old, unwanted vehicle can mean important shipping funds for us! You can donate online or call 1-800-320-0476. Learn more here.

8. Print and distribute
Operation TeddyCare fliers

What good is a Teddy Bear? Read

A Tribute to Chumba

photo courtesy Salvation Army

girl with Teddy

 

good world
View of the USA from heaven

 

space photo courtesy of NASA