Red Cross Angels Judi Thomas, left, and Jenette Sibayan Cruz show new baby clothes that will be packed into reusable tote bags to help create Bundles for Babies.
Members of the Red Cross Angels spent a morning recently “bundling” baby clothes, diapers, bottles, and handmade blankets as gifts for expectant mothers at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
The Angels, a volunteer auxiliary to the Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross, collected the donated items to create 30 bundles in reusable tote bags, which were distributed as part of the Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces (SAF) program.
Sylvia Pringle, a Red Cross SAF volunteer, said the families with new babies are thrilled when they receive the bundles as gifts.
“It’s a great calling card for us,” she told members of the Angels, who were gathered at the Red Cross office for a spring meeting. Following the meeting, the women circled through the meeting room where the items were stacked, filling and trying the bags to be taken to the Air Force base.
The items will be distributed in May during Military Appreciation Month.
The Angels were founded in 1981 by Beverly Austin and 32 others, who are known as the Founding Members.
Leslie Jennewein, Red Cross Angels Incoming President, shows a stuffed reusable tote bag for the Red Cross Angels Bundles for Babies project.
Shirley Taylor and Patricia Handly stuff reusable tote bags for the Red Cross Angels Bundles for Babies project.
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