CHARLOTTE -- Members of Myers Park United Methodist Church put together hundreds of care packages to be sent to AIDS patients in Swaziland, Africa on Sunday.

"Swaziland has a 30 plus percent HIV/AIDS infection rate, so it's at epidemic proportions," said John Thompson with World Vision.

World Vision helps the poor in nearly 100 countries and will be responsible for getting the care packages to those who need them the most.

"Those thousand will be spread in several different communities with caregiver groups and a number of communities in Swaziland,” Thompson said of the care kits.

Organizer and Myers Park Methodist Church member Allen Smith said simple products go in the kits like vaseline, cotton balls and antibacterial cream. They are hygienic items that seem simple to most people, but to those who are sick and dying, they make a world of difference.

"You could go to the corner drug store and you could buy any of these items, but none of these items are available in a small village with no running water, no electricity, no transportation, and no money," Smith explained.

As the supplies stack up, so do the numbers of lives that will be changed because of a simple orange box.

"It is more than a packing a kit, it is more than putting, sending some supplies to people in need," said Smith about putting a care package together.

Sunday’s goal was to fill 1,000 kits and get them sent to Swaziland as soon as possible.