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GREENSBORO – Dozens gathered at a Greensboro church Saturday to put together care packages for women of color serving overseas. The Sister Soldier Project works to make sure the women have the things they need, and organizers used the party to teach young volunteers about the difference they can make.

Packing the boxes with goodies started as way to show three Girl Scouts how volunteering their time can make a difference.

“Because we have a small troop, and I want the girls to feel that even though we are small in size, they're able to contribute on a larger level. And not only a larger level in Greensboro, but internationally as well,” organizer Janelle Powell said.

But it turned into the community coming together. A community that gathered the comforts of home to send to the Middle East.

“Everything from lotions, mouth wash to body wash,” Powell said.

The Sister Soldier Project started two years ago to give women of color serving in the military the ethnic hair products they can't get anywhere else.

“What we do is ship hair care products primarily to Iraq and Afghanistan and the Middle East theater, and the hair care sponsor today is Dudley's, which is a hometown company, and we are really proud to sponsor with them for the first time,” Myraline Morris Whitaker, with the Sister Soldier Project, said.

Whitaker says getting products to donate is the easy part for the charity. But they always need more help paying to ship the boxes. Saturday alone, the group sent out 50 care packages. “

“Because each one of these packages costs $10.35 to ship regardless of the weight, regardless of the destination, which seems like a good value, but when your sending 50, 100, 200 at a time, it gets a little expensive,” Whitaker said.

But all involved say the expense is worth it to help the women fighting for the country.

“Even though they are far away, they have Girl Scouts who are about a mission, who are about helping community, thought about them enough to send them a care package to help them along the way,” Powell said.