Volunteer Northwest Mississippi held its 4th annual joint 9/11 Day of Service project with MidSouth Project Package, a Southaven 501c3 whose mission is to send care packages to midsouth men and women currently stationed overseas. VNM partnered with area businesses that are members of our Corporate Volunteer Council to collect care package supplies throughout the month of August and more than 800 pounds of supplies were collected. Businesses also raised funds for postage throughout August and $3000 was raised for Project Package. All of the businesses and several other community groups and volunteers came together on Thursday, September 7th to assemble care packages and take part in a program that honored the lives lost and forever changed on September 11, 2001. Rickey Pope, Executive Director, shared his passion for the mission with the volunteers and introduced Sandy Cummins, a long-time volunteer and mother of two sons who are career military men. 100 volunteers were engaged for this event and 500 hours were volunteered. The businesses that participated in this event include:
- BancorpSouth
- Community Bank
- CSpire
- Cub Scout Pack 347
- Dollar General
- Entergy
- Northcentral Electric Power Association
- Northwest MS Association of Realtors
- Police Explorers
- Renasant Bank,
- Southaven VIPs
- Trustmark Bank