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Six Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington (GLOW) students awarded a $1,000 grant to the Diaper Bank of North Carolina-Lower Cape Fear on Tuesday, March 26.
The students are part of the Student Giving Circle, an initiative of the Women’s Impact Network of New Hanover County.
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MICHELLE OLD’S eyes were opened to the huge need for diapers after adopting her youngest child. “He was very sick for the first year and a half,” she says of her son, who is now 11 years old. “We were changing him 30 to 40 times a day, but he’d still end up in the emergency room with diaper rashes. His body could not fight off any type of infection or irritation.”
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Founded in 2013 by Michelle Old, this organization distributes diaper and hygiene products to babies, teens, women and seniors. Once a week, every week, for a few hours each time, Kathy Hohneker heads to a cold but vibrant 12,000 square- foot warehouse in Durham.
Families can spend up to $100 a month on diapers. Now, one North Carolina woman is trying to fill the gap.
The Diaper Bank already has locations in the Triangle, Triad and Lower Cape Fear region. Michelle Old, the founder, started the business in 2013 and says one in three families are in need of diaper assistance.
The Diaper Bank of North Carolina has a warehouse in Winston-Salem. The recent shortage has them struggling with supply.
Michelle Old has been helping families living in poverty for the past decade as the founder of the Diaper Bank of North Carolina. Her Triangle organization provides basic necessities like diapers, period products and adult incontinence supplies.
Seeing families struggle to pay for their babies' basic needs drove an N.C. woman to start an organization designed to help them meet those challenges.
“What do you need?” someone asked about a month before my baby was due. I had just read the New York Times article about diapers being the latest pandemic shortage and was already nervous about the added expense.
As businesses and organizations continue to recover, after the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire, at least one of those organizations needs your help tonight. The Diaper Bank of North Carolina’s Greater Triad Branch a non-profit, has been impacted because of that fire.
The organization said at least 60,000 of their diapers are not usable after the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant fire.
According to the Diaper Bank of North Carolina, one in three families experience a need for diapers. The nonprofit says, since the pandemic began, there’s been a 400% increase in diaper requests, an 800% increase in need for period products and a 2,000% increase in need for adult incontinence supplies.
"We need support from the community. We need folks that value basic hygiene needs for the community to support our work"
In light of Period Poverty Awareness Week, in this edition of Addressing Taboo Topics, we take a look at how one nonprofit is speaking out about the growing need for period products in the community and the detrimental effects not being able to afford these essential goods has on an individual.
In 1907, Anna Jarvis held a memorial service for her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, a peace activist who created Mothers’ Day Work Clubs in the 1850s to promote children’s health. The elder Jarvis’s commitment to hygienic childcare was borne of tragedy, as she lost nine children to epidemics spread through unsanitary conditions common during the 19th century.
Michelle Old ‘00 answered a call for social justice by getting an essential product to parents in need.
Without the necessary items, older adults can end up embarrassed and worried about how they smell or what might happen if a restroom isn't nearby.
Prior to 2013, Michelle Old always thought she would continue policy writing to stop violence against women. She didn’t think a cold warehouse full of diapers...
The Diaper Bank of North Carolina's services are in high demand and local organizations like the Jewish Community Center of Durham are hard at work collecting diapers for the organization.
Packed into a 10,000-square-foot warehouse in Durham are two million disposable diapers that individuals and diaper companies have donated to the Diaper Bank of North Carolina, a Durham nonprofit that has distributed over one million diapers to agencies serving low-income families since it began operating in June 2013.
During its first year, someone robbed the Diaper Bank of North Carolina. The thief made off with 16,000 diapers, and Diaper Bank Executive Director Michelle Old put out a call for donations to help the young nonprofit bounce back from the sizable loss.
Some big news about two great organizations that gather diapers for local families in need ... The Durham-based Diaper Bank of North Carolina, a statewide group, is partnering with The Diaper Train, Wake County’s only existing diaper program.
The Diaper Bank of North Carolina has launched an effort to deliver diapers and other necessities to communities struggling after Hurricane Matthew.
Michelle Old founded the Diaper Bank of North Carolina in January 2013. The Diaper Bank distributes around 75,000 diapers monthly statewide through a network of service provider organizations. The Diaper Bank received its very first grant in 2014 from Duke employees through Doing Good in the Neighborhood. Photo credit: Jon Young, JY Visuals.
Diaper Bank of North Carolina Lower Cape Fear is moving into a larger space donated by Grace United Methodist Church.
The Diaper Bank of North Carolina, which does great work distributing diapers to agencies that help needy families across the region and state, is hosting a diaper drive this April to build up a supply to ensure they can meet the demand.
In the United States, one in three families struggle to afford diapers. The Diaper Bank of North Carolina was founded on the simple belief that all children deserve clean diapers and through the help of donors, volunteers and connections made with community partners, they are working to do just that.