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...With the aim of addressing these two challenges, Ho set out to create a Web site that would connect U.S. soldiers working in Iraqi communities with civilians in the U.S. “It’s amazing what Google News can do,” Ho said...
...Together, Ho and his co-founders created BeyondOrders.org. Through the site, U.S. soldiers can request supplies that they think would benefit local Iraqi communities in which they are stationed, while civilians at home in America can donate and send these materials to the soldiers stationed abroad...
...Matt Scherrer, a co-founder of the site, said that Beyond Orders’ humanitarian focus fills a gap in the U.S. military’s presence in Iraq...
...According to Ho, the Web site has been responsible for more than $40,000 worth of shipments to Iraq in its first year of operation...
...date” was providing sewing machines for the Iraqi Women’s League in Al Qaim, which lies on the Iraq-Syria border. A donor group, identified on Beyond Orders as The Hugs Group, sent approximately 20 sewing machines to Marine Lt. Colin Ricks through the Web site in the summer...