For the seventh straight year, DHL (Plantation, Fla.)has teamed up with the New York community to donate and deliver hundreds of holiday trees, decorations and messages of support to U.S. troops serving abroad through its ‘DHL Operation Holiday Cheer’ charitable program. The special holiday shipment will receive a send-off celebration on Monday, Dec. 6, from a New York area nursery as well as DHL’s international gateway facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
DHL has donated all transportation and logistical services for the trees and holiday items being delivered to Servicemembers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bahrain. Five hundred real trees along with lights, tinsel and holiday decorations as well as “Santa Sacks” filled with thousands of holiday cards written by New York-area schoolchildren will be transported to U.S. troops overseas.
The shipment was generously supplied through donations from New York businesses and community organizations, including Dee’s Nursery, Adelis International Security, Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon, Proctor-Hopson Post 1896 Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and other members of the New York metro community.
“As the specialists in international shipping, DHL is proud to leverage its international expertise and extensive global network to help U.S. Servicemembers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bahrain feel just a bit closer to home this holiday season with the delivery of this special, community-donated care package,” said Ian Clough, CEO of DHL Express, USA.
DHL has also helped honor and support U.S. Servicemembers stationed thousands of miles away through its charitable partnership with Pizzas 4 Patriots, sending thousands of care packages per year, or “slices of home” to U.S. troops serving abroad. DHL is uniquely positioned to support U.S. servicemen and women at bases on 6 continents, providing its international shipping expertise wherever U.S. military serve around the world.
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