For more than 20 years, Kathy Price has been on a Mission of Love. Helping to deliver basic human rights—everything from wheelchairs to windows—to the ones Price said society has forgot.
"It's not just my Mission of Love, but it's everybody's mission in life, to be able to be of service and give to others who are in need," said Price, Director and Founder of the Mission of Love Foundation.
Price and her non-profit foundation have been able to airlift more than 35 million pounds of aid to five continents in our world. This is made possible because of the Denton Program, which is a Congressional law that lets private citizens use space on military cargo planes to transport donated goods and services.
"The Mission of Love is the largest user of the Denton Program in the world, right here in Austintown, Ohio," Price said with a smile.
Price has volunteers all over the globe, who are ready to travel wherever they're needed at a moment's notice, delivering medical supplies, building tools or even educational materials we take for granted, to areas which need them the most.
This year, they helped build homes for the Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, using paint and supplies donated from several local companies.
"It's a very good cause. I have other causes but this is the one I really lean toward because I think it's really down in the grassroots. That's how I feel about it," said Roland Brothers, Owner of All Coatings and Sentco Paint in Youngstown.
"Charity begins at home," Scott Brothers, Roland Brothers' son, added. "And Kathy's story, all you gotta do is meet her and talk to her, and you'd want to help too."
In just a couple weeks, 75,000 pounds of aid, food and supplies will be loaded up from the Mission of Love warehouse, and taken to the 910th Airlift Wing in Vienna, where it will be put on a plane and flown to the orphans of Casa, Guatemala, and the surrounding Mayan villages.
The mission is ongoing, not for recognition, and not because it's Christmas, but simply because it's the right thing to do, Price said.
"Our intent is strictly a Mission of Love," Price said. "That's all you come in with, that's all you leave with, is what you've done with your life, and if we could facilitate that as one's journey, we've accomplished what we needed to do."
She said for every dollar donated, they're able to provide $122 worth of goods and services.
For more information on the Mission of Love, and what you can do to help, click on links on this site.
