Your "two bags per person" policy will mean that hundreds of poor children in Juarez, Mexico, will be warmer this winter.
My wife has 10 relatives flying SWA from El Paso, Texas to visit us in Nashville, Tennessee this Christmas. Because of your "two bags free" policy, they will each return home carrying about 50 pounds of donated jackets—perhaps 500 pounds total—back to El Paso. These jackets will then be transported across the Rio Grande River to the crime-ravaged city of Juarez, minutes from El Paso.
My wife, Teresa, grew up among the poor of Juarez. She has watched schoolchildren walk to their makeshift classroom: a yellow school bus resting on its axles and without glass in the windows. The children sit in this outdoor school throughout the winter months, with the 30-degree desert winds blowing in the bus from one side, then exiting through the windows on the other side. Imagine trying to learn while cold...
Now, living in the security and beauty of MiddleTennessee, Teresa has the opportunity to provide a measure of healing for those in her old Juarez neighborhoods—and for her own soul. It is your baggage policy that will allow Teresa to fulfill one of her greatest desires: To bring a measure of relief and hope—and warmth— to children in Juarez.
Thank you,
John and Teresa (Torres) Bodle
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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