Nigeria

Care Packages always make my day! It's such a wonderful feeling to know that someone out
there cares and took the time to put together something to send to me. Receiving a Care
Package is often the highlight of my month. It's so encouraging and fun to get and to see
what's inside. So please send me packages! It'll make my day and really cheer me up!

There are a couple of goals of a Care Package:
1. To cheer me up
2. To remind me of home
3. To provide something useful I can't get in Nigeria.

The Usual List:

		Your local Newspaper
		Dried food eg. soup & sauces
		Canadian souvenirs from the dollar store(for me to give to my co-workers)
		Books & Magazines (got any books in pdf you can email me?)
		Updated picture of you for my wall
		Chocolate bars or Chips or Trail Mix or granola bars
		Cheese (processed & in ziplock or a sealed block of fresh Cheese)
		Pictures or postcards or anything else I can use to decorate my walls
		Sea salt refills for my grinders I brought
		Bodum
		BBQ Skewers
		Cough syrup, throat lozenges, Tylonal (Paracetamol) cold medication
		Flavored instant coffee or powered creamer (Hazelnut, Irish Cream, French Vanilla)
		Any other treats you can think of or food you have in your pantry!

Where to send the Care Package:
You can send it direct to me by registered mail
or courier:

Tammie Brooks
c\o General & Chief Alabi-Isama
SATCOM Ltd.
1 Aduralere Street, Amilegbe
Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Or Regular mail to:
Tammie Brooks
c/o Voluntary Service Overseas
1182 Olusegun Obasanjo Crescent
PO BOX 2452,
Garki, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria

How to send a care package:

		Enclose in a secure & sturdy box or
		envelope, customs will open every package and inspect.
		Enclose all food in ziplock or plastic
		bags, even powered food packages can get punctured and attract creatures on the way here.
		Make sure there is a list of contents
		included inside and outside
		Email me so I know to expect it and
		ask the VSO for it

This month's top items:

		Sauces: Hollandaise, Tuna Napoleon,
		Alfredo, cheese, etc...
		Blue Tack for posting pictures
		Brie from Costco
		Chocolate cake mix (w/ith icing) :-)