BALTIMORE, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A shipment of Lutheran World Relief health kits and layettes left LWR's warehouse in New Windsor, Md., today, to be distributed to Haitian earthquake survivors.

A lightweight, non-woven blanket engineered by a South Carolina company is keeping disaster victims dry and warm from the Gulf Coast to the mountains of Pakistan to the tsunami-ravaged areas of Southeast Asia. The blanket developed by the Polymer Group Inc.

News Advisory: Dennis Joseph, a representative of the Pakistan/Afghanistan regional offices in Pakistan, was in the U.S. when the devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit northern Pakistan, Kashmir, and parts of Afghanistan and India yesterday (Sat. Oct 8).