Since we came to the Philippines 4 years ago, my good friend Becky has been my Canadian supply buyer. I send her a list of what we would like, she checks the sales, boxes them all up, takes them to the shipping company in Mississauga and then sends me the bill.
(She promises to get me some fun rubber boots like that someday!!!)
We can get a lot of things here but some things are very expensive. Two examples are coffee and peanut butter. For a 1 kg container they cost about $10 here. 
That is about double the price in Canada. Cereal is another item that is usually about double the price and boy do we eat a lot of cereal. The kids haven’t grow to like rice and dried fish for breakfast like many Filipino’s!!! The shipping of these boxes is only $45 and the weight is unlimited. It takes about 6-8 weeks to get here and are delivered right to our mission office in Manila. We now have them sent up by bus to our place, which takes another 12 hrs. We get very excited when we here they have arrived in Manila.
Back in September our church in Wasaga Beach started collecting food items to send to us here in the Philippines. They filled up a box with food and another with baby quilts and layettes. We will give these quilts and layettes to the new moms in the village.
Thank you to everyone we sent stuff in these boxes. We will enjoy every granola bar, chocolate chip cookie and bite of Kraft Dinner. Thank you to all the hands that prepared the baby quilts and those who put together the layettes. I am sure the ladies will love these. I have 3 new moms to give them to later this week when we get in the village.
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