Indianapolis, Indiana … “It has been the most successful program in the past 22 years in respect to the number of people who have spread the word about it, and have participated in helping collect over 1,000,000 prescription containers,” reports Richard Stephens, a co-founder of the Project and member of the Board of Directors. “However, there are also a number of other programs to which we are deeply commited. We must keep our focus on assisting these other areas as well. It is our hope those who have helped with the prescription container program will continue with us to make these other programs just as successful,” Stephens notes.
All individual collections of prescription have now stopped. The only exception is for churches and other community groups engaged in large collection programs prior to the cut off date of Thanksgiving Day 2015. For them the program will end on Christmas Day 2015, and all prescription vials should be shipped in the first two weeks of January 2016. These groups are requested to not ship between now and Christmas so the Post Office, UPS and Fedex can focus on the heavy influx of holiday packages.
Stephens notes, “In our original posting in March 2015 everyone was so excited the original post reached well over 5 million people. We really need everyone to make the same effort to spread the word of its conclusion so we can get the containers shipped to Malawi in a timely fashion.”