Care packages for deployed servicemembers!

Kahne's Kare Packages has sent care packages overseas to our deployed servicemembers for the last 7 years. This year we were able to send 312 servicemembers care packages! We just got a last-minute address for a newly deployed unit and are looking for some help in raising money to help us pay for the cost of shipping.

Here is a little back story on why Kahne started “Kahne’s Kare Packages”:

On Oct. 7, 2016, our lives changed in an instant. My little brother, Derek, Kahne’s Uncle, passed away unexpectedly in his sleep, he was only 31 years old. He not only was Kahne’s Uncle, but he was his best friend. His nickname for him was “Uncle Dude”, and anytime we went somewhere that he could invite someone, along with his friends, he ALWAYS invited “Uncle Dude”. When my brother passed, it devastated all of us, but Kahne the most, as it was the first time he had lost a loved one, and was old enough to understand what death was. We lost my oldest brother Dan in 2010 at 37 years old, but at that time, Kahne was 4 and didn’t really grasp what had happened. Watching Kahne deal with emotions he never experienced before and learning to deal with missing his Uncle, was the hardest thing as a parent to watch and know there was nothing I could do to make it go away. So, to try and help him cope, I reached out to a friend of ours, who’s husband is in the military, and he reached out to one of his friends in Afghanistan and got Kahne a pen pal. We will never replace ‘Uncle Dude”, but having a pen pal has helped him cope with missing him and start healing in the process. Chad, Kahne’s pen pal, has been amazing to Kahne, and in the process of writing back and forth, Kahne is learning about the Military and what they do. He didn’t realize that during the holidays, the soldiers stay in Afghanistan, and don’t get to go home to their families, and that devastated him. Kahne didn’t skip a beat and ask what we could do to help them have the best holiday we could. Dec 2017, for the first time, Kahne reached out to friends and family for donations, and we sent care packages over to his pen pal and the platoon overseas, and they LOVED them!!

2017 - 40 soldiers got care packages

2018 - 100 soldiers and 10 - K9 working dogs and their handlers got care packages.

2019 - 77 Soldiers and 10-K9 working dogs and their handlers got care packages.

2020 - 228 servicemembers and 8-K9 Working Dog Teams and their handlers got care packages.

2021 - 230 servicemembers and 4-K9 working dog teams and their handlers got care packages.

2022 - 220 servicemembers and 4-K9 working dog teams and their handlers got care packages.