It's been a year since Operation Adopt-A-Soldier's headquarters burnt down, but the organization is still working to send a little something to our soldiers overseas. On Saturday, the organization held a donation drive outside its temporary headquarters on Route 9, collecting for another round of care packages.

The fire last August devastated hundreds of care packages, supplies, and the space where Operation Adopt-A-Solider was headquartered since 2005. Since then, it's been a rocky road.

"Ups and downs," said Dominic Tom, a volunteer.

The organization is working out of a donated space on Route 9 in Wilton, and just as they were starting to slowly getting back on their feet, the pandemic hit.

"We did close down for about two-and-a-half months, which was kind of double-whammy after the fire last year," Tom said, "We reopened back in June when we were allowed and so we're letting the public know that we're still here ... and like our motto says -- 'til they all come home."

So on Saturday, volunteers dressed in PPE, set up in front of their temporary home to collect donations, as car after car drove through with snacks, books, games, stationary and more, and of course, money. Volunteers were excited Saturday afternoon that the event was a big boost following a few slow months.

"Right now we find ourselves down quite a bit, we had to cancel our August pack-up because we were out of food and candy and snacks, things like that," Tom said.

The organization has also dialed back on the number of boxes it packs up, just around a hundred a month, with just one volunteer going in at a time to maintain social distance. Typically, they pack up around 300 boxes each month. But despite all of the hardships this past year, volunteers like Tom say it's worth it.

"From our experiences and the response we get from the soldiers overseas -- it's for them really," Tom said. "The morale really skyrockets when they get the boxes."

Tom says the morale skyrockets for volunteers too, when they hear back from their recipients.

"We really just enjoy doing it because it's really just to bring them a little bit of home. They're so far away and we just want to let them know that the public is behind them 100 percent," Tom said.

One of the most critical things volunteers say they lost in that fire last year was their mailing list, it wasn't backed up anywhere, and they're hoping to rebuild it again.

To sign up for their package list, visit Operation Adopt-A-Soldier's website.

If you didn't make it to Saturday's drive, Operation Adopt-A-Soldier is open every Saturday for drop off donations from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at their temporary location at 891 Saratoga Road (Route 9) in Wilton.

Checks and supplies can also be mailed to that address.

Additionally, the organization has bins at four area Hannaford locations: Hudson Falls, Glens Falls, South Glens Falls and Queensbury and at the Chapman Museum in Glens Falls.

For more information about how to help, click here.