We’re so happy to announce that we have partnered with Packages from Home, a Glendale, AZ based charitable non-profit that sends care packages to US military personnel serving overseas. Through donations, volunteer labor, and fund raising they are able to ship some of the comforts of home to those service members who are sacrificing to keep us safe. Since 2005, Packages from Home has shipped over five hundred care packages a month to our troops. Wow! If you know anyone serving overseas I’m sure you can understand how much these care packages are appreciated.

So where do we fit in? Well, when we found out that one of the most requested items from troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (aside from boxer shorts and socks) is lip balm, we sprang into action. G.B. Proudfoot’s Original Lip Balms are formulated to stand up to Arizona’s summer heat making them perfect for use in any desert! Starting today we are starting a program where for every GBPROUDFOOTS.com online order or Farmer’s Market purchase, we will donate a lip balm to Packages from Home. With your help we are aiming to supply Packages from Home with 500+ lip balms by the beginning of December, right in time for Christmas!

We encourage you to learn more about Packages from Home and to help us provide relief to all those chapped lips in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you’d like to do more, visit the Packages from Home website http://packagesfromhome.org for a list of items to donate and other methods of supporting this great organization.

We hope that you all are as excited about this program as we are. With its continued success we hope to continue it until all our troops are safe and back home.