Pens for Progress

For anyone interested in helping our men and women in Afghanistan, here is an easy, inexpensive way you can make a difference. Pens for Progress was started by Wesley Bauguess to help her husband Major Larry Bauguess on his daily missions. Here is the heart wrenching story that accompanies the request.

The soldiers began giving the Afghan children, who have absolutely nothing, pens, pencils, construction paper and small toys when the children's fascination for the pens affixed to the soldiers' uniforms became apparent.

They need supplies from home, wherever your home may be, to pass out. For only $8.95 plus the cost of the pens, paper and toys, you can send a package to the folks responsible for making a difference in the lives of the Afghans and for giving them hope where they had none under the Taliban rule. You simply pick up a Flat Rate Box at the post office, fill out the customs form and you will only pay domestic mail service prices.

Here are two addresses you can use to mail the supplies:

MAJ Todd A. Berry
F2
CTF Fury, 4th BCT, 508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division
FOB Salerno, AFG

OR

MAJ Mary Hannah & SFC Martin Johnson
Attn: Zhergoon Ana School Project
C Co, 782nd Brigade Support Battalion
FOB Salerno
APO AE 09314