Students have sent postcards and care packages to soldiers in Iraq and school supplies to Iraqi children. But in those cases, someone else mailed the stuff off to Iraq. That is the next challenge for Charlotte Wood: figuring out how to pay to ship the sandals halfway around the world.
They have no idea what that might cost, but Loecher is confident someone will step forward to pay the postage. She has a positive attitude about things like that, and tries to instill it in her students.
"If you have a dream of something you want to do, I'll help you," she tells them. "I won't tell you it's silly. I won't tell you it can't be done."
"That is the next challenge for Charlotte Wood: figuring out how to pay to ship the sandals halfway around the world. "
You don't have to pay to have them shipped to Iraq...if you are shipping to an APO you only pay to get the package to New York. The military picks the packages up and delivers them to the bases in Iraq.
I shipped a dozen pairs of sandles and a dozen t shirts and it cost about $8