Tag: diaper drive
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HomeFront seeks diapers in Mother’s Day diaper challenge
How do you collect 500,000 diapers in eight weeks? One box at a time. That’s the goal that HomeFront has set by Mother’s Day on May 8 to help families who cannot afford to keep their babies in diapers. HomeFront, which helps the homeless and the working poor, operates its own diaper resource center in…
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HomeFront celebrates collection of 1 million diapers in six weeks
How do you collect 1 million diapers in six weeks? One box at a time. With a flourish, HomeFront officials rolled up the metal doors on its Diaper Resource Center to reveal boxes and boxes of diapers at a special celebration May 10. New Jersey’s First Lady, Tammy Murphy, was on hand to help HomeFront…
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Central Jersey Diaper Bank offers home pickup of donated baby clothing, diapers
The Anshe Emeth Community Development Corp (AECDC) Central Jersey Diaper Bank is collecting baby clothing sizes newborn-2T, diapers and books. Donations can be picked up if within Middlesex County. To sign up for home pickup, use THIS FORM and indicate which date you would like to have your donation picked up. Volunteers from Rutgers School…
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Middlesex County College to hold diaper drives Oct. 23 and 30 on campus
PHOTO COURTESY OF THOMAS PETERSON Democracy House, the Center for Community Engagement and Civic Leadership at Middlesex County College, is holding a drive-through diaper drive over the next two Fridays, Oct. 23 and 30, from 3-6 p.m. Drivers can bring their donations to Lot 2, near the college’s Mill Road entrance on the Edison campus,…
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Drop off diapers, baby wipes on June 5 and 7 in New Brunswick
The Central Jersey Diaper Bank will hold two no-contact “Diaper Drive-Thru” events in the parking lot of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, 222 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Drop off donations of diapers, baby wipes, formula and face masks from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 5 and 7. Or, make a monetary donation at centraljerseydiaperbank.org.…
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Central Jersey Diaper Bank wants to wipe away the stress of the cost of diapers for those in need
The goal of the Central Jersey Diaper Bank (CJDB) is to hold 50 diaper drives during Diaper Need Awareness Week in September. From Sept. 23-29, Executive Director Ginny Adams Kafka hopes area residents will donate 100,000 diapers in support of the year-long estimate of 250,000. “The cost of diapers went up,” said Kafka, a mother…
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Photographer to speak about New Jersey Hall of Fame during Brandeis meeting
Brandeis University Middlesex Chapter will welcome photographer Gary Gellman for a multimedia presentation on The New Jersey Hall of Fame events, at 1 p.m. on July 15 at the East Brunswick Library, Civic Center Drive off Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. This program is free and open to the public. The July Social Justice collection will…
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North Brunswick students set record with diaper collection
NORTH BRUNSWICK – Students in North Brunswick have completed the largest diaper drive of the year–to date– in Middlesex County. From mid-March to April 5, members of the Human Rights Coalition (HRC); the Project RISE (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence) Committee, a part of the Student Government Organization (SGO); and the National Honor Society at North…
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MOMS Club, VFW partner for diaper drive for Aldersgate Crisis Room
PHOTO COURTESY OF DOVEY SAWHNEY-GILL Members of the MOMS Club of East Brunswick Area and VFW Post 133 supported Ella Hornstein’s diaper drive for the Crisis Room at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, East Brunswick. Karman Gill, son of Dovey Sawhney-Gill, president of the MOMS Club, stands with some of the 17 packages (1,470 diapers) that…