Elinor's Culture Club donates 700 diapers!
Elinor's Culture Club, a group of New Jersey women brought together by the late Elinor Geller, invited AECDC President Deborah Cherniss (second from right) to tell them about diaper need and the kinds of situations that bring clients to us.
February 2018 News
In-kind donations:
We continue to receive hundreds of diapers from Brandeis Women and other groups, like Elinor’s Culture Club.
Our Resource VP, John Yen, has become a Craig’s List devotee, searching for baby items and asking the sellers if they’d be willing to donate to us.
He’s had a strong response – and has been very busy picking up a variety of items, including diapers, high chairs and bassinets.
Blood Drive AND Diaper Drive!
In 2015, Casey Cattell not only became a first-time mother, but she also became one of the many faces of the Maternal Health Crisis in the United States. It would be an understatement to say she had a challenging pregnancy and postpartum, dodging death not once, but twice. Blood transfusions were one of the crucial elements to saving her life- she received at least 15 units which is more than her entire blood volume- and she is now holding blood drives to support Maternal Health Awareness to pay the gift of life forward.
Central Jersey Diaper Bank meets needs of families...
Through our Central Jersey Diaper Bank (formerly B-FED: Baby Formula, Equipment and Diapers) we’ve:
- Served 299 families, 50 of them two times (so we’ve filled 353 requests for diapers, wipes, and clothes)
- Distributed 31,715 diapers to them
Read more: Central Jersey Diaper Bank meets needs of families...
