Time flies...!!!

Although it seems unbelievable, our next care packaging event is coming up soon!! It feels like just yesterday that we had our ninth event and sent more than fifty care packages to soldiers overseas.

Volunteers after another successful event

Our tenth event will take place on Saturday, April 14th. We will be looking for volunteers to help on Saturday to prepare the care packages. If you are unable to help on that day, you can help in other ways as well. We are in great need of supplies to fill the care packages. Please use our Suggested Supply Donation list (found above in the Important Documents link) as a guide for needed supplies. Donations need to be submitted by Friday, April 6th. To recommend a soldier to receive a package at our next event, please fill out the Soldier Referral Form (found above in the Important Documents link) and send it to us. If you are interested in helping in these or other ways, please contact us to become involved in another great event!

Upcoming Event!

Our ninth event to prepare care packages will be held on Saturday, November 5th in North Orange. If you are interested in helping us with this event, we would love your support!  Below is a list of ways you can help, but if you think of another way you would like to support OTOH, please contact us.  We would love to hear your ideas!

Help Us Get the Word Out: Below you will find a link to our poster for the upcoming event. Please share this link with your friends. Also, you could print a copy and hang it up at your workplace, church or anywhere in your area that would be visible to help get the word out about this event.

November 2011 Event Poster

Monetary Donations: We are always looking for monetary donations to help cover the cost of shipping and purchasing supplies. If you would like to donate money, please make checks payable to Operation Touch of Home and mail to 93 Royalston Road, Orange, MA 01364-9633.

Supply Donations: Below you will find the link to a current list of needed supplies. Supplies can be dropped off at Diemand Farm in Wendell, Adams Animal Hospital in Athol or you can contact us to make other arrangements. The deadline for supply donations is October 28th.
Supply Donation List

Refer-A-Soldier: We are collecting current names and addresses of soldiers stationed overseas that would like to receive a care package. Below you will find a link to the form you will need to fill out to send us all the information we need. The deadline for addresses is October 28th.

Soldier Referral Form

Volunteer: We are in need of volunteers to help at the event. If you are interested in helping, please contact us by October 28th to be added to the list and to get the details about volunteering at the event.

Thank you for your continued support of Operation Touch of Home!!

Addresses Needed

Although the majority of the care packages that we send are prepared at our two main events in April and November; we collect names year-round.  We recently received names and addresses of five new soldiers overseas, for which care packages were sent to today.

A constant challenge we face is obtaining new addresses of soldiers deployed overseas as we are unable to obtain their contact information due to strict confidentiality restrictions.  Therefore, we rely heavily on the community to provide us with address referrals.  In preparation for our next care packaging event on Saturday, April 2nd, we are beginning to collect names and addresses.  If you know of a service member to refer, please download the Soldier Referral Form and return to us.  Any new addresses received will not receive a care package until our event in April.  This is to prevent an excess of items in the soldiers' limited space, as we have found this to be a problem in the past.

If you are in the North Quabbin area, be sure to see our featured article in the February edition of Quabbin Valley Voices in the My Turn column!  As always, thank you for your continued support of Operation Touch of Home!!

-Tessa & Jess

Upcoming Event!

On Saturday, November 6th, Operation Touch of Home will be hosting our seventh event to prepare care packages to soldiers overseas. We are in need of addresses of troops overseas who would like to receive care packages. Our only source for this information is from soldiers' friends and family in our community. We are also accepting supply and monetary donations. Addresses and supply donations must be received no later than Friday, October 22nd to ensure all necessary preparation can be done prior to the packaging event. To refer a soldier to receive a care package, please complete the Soldier Referral Form and return it to OTOH by the deadline.

Addresses and monetary donations can be sent to: 

Operation Touch of Home

93 Royalston Road

Orange, MA 01364

Checks should be made payable to: Operation Touch of Home.

Supply donations can be dropped off at Adams Animal Hospital in Athol and Diemand Farm in Wendell. Click here for a list of suggested donations.

If you plan to volunteer at the event, please contact us by Friday, October 22nd for further details.

View Poster for November 2010 Event   

Since Operation Touch of Home began in 2007, more than 280 packages have been sent to troops stationed overseas.  OTOH is sponsored by the North Orange Grange and Diemand Farm.

Important Documents

Below we have linked several PDF files that may interest you.

Background Flier

Suggested Donations

Soldier Referral Form

Letter Writing Tips