USA Orrville Warehouse (Built in 1999, expanded in 2010)
The beginning:
The journey for CAMO in the United States began in Kathy Tschiegg’s living room out of a duffel bag. In 1994, a respiratory therapist that worked at Aultman hospital heard that Kathy was in need of a warehouse space, so half of an abandoned warehouse was donated for storage. When that space became too crowded, Bob and Carolyn Fitzwater donated their barn to work from as well. At this point volunteers were packing from two seperate facilities: one in the warehouse in Canton and one in the barn in Kidron. Neither of these buildings had heat, so the early years were plagued with pneumonia and other illnesses.
1999:
As CAMO began to expand, Kathy asked the Steiner brothers about available land. They then donated the land that the Orrville warehouse is currently located. At this point, Mark Raber, who had gone to Honduras in 1995, joined as the general contractor of the project. Eldon Gerber, of Gerber Hardware and Lumber in Kidron, provided all the necessary materials for the construction of the building.
The son of Mary and Eli Yoder, both of whom were killed in a tragic accident taking supplies to Honduras in 1995, brought the necessary labor to raise the Orrville warehouse in just one day.
CAMO’s Orrville warehouse was designed to accommodate our purpose: there is an area for receiving supplies & equipment, an area for sorting & packing, and an area for shipping. It provides the necessary space for CAMO to function effectively.
In 2009, CAMO received an anonymous donation for $70,000. Due to continued growth in services and size, and a need for the expansion of the Orrville facility, specifically in the area of biomedical and crating, a new addition was added and completed in 2010. All the labor was donated, and Mark Raber coordinated the contracting. Eight different contractors throughout Holmes and Wayne County and the Maryland area came up and completed the frame and roof in one day.
