By Stephanie Bowers | Project Leader
No one has ever made it through life without someone else's help.
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria have caused massive devastation in the U.S. and Caribbean; and we're on a mission to step up and help. A sister diaper bank, with active chapters in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico, has become overwhelmed with requests. Because of our amazing network of people like you, we have now partnered with The Rebecca Foundation. We're working together to provide cloth diapers as our piece of Hurricane Relief & Recovery. Federal disaster relief programs do not include diapers, and this is a problem.
Alysha is a loving Mom in Puerto Rico, and is the Chapter President for The Rebecca Foundation. She distributes cloth diaper kits to low income, struggling families. We were able to briefly connect with her, and she is safe. She writes "Here (Rio Grande) all the streets around me are flooded. All the posts are down, billboards, and roofs. It is terrible."
Our Diaper Drop in Haiti also flooded as a result of Irma. No one was hurt, and the town rallied to clean the Rescue Center & ICU. We have another new Diaper Drop, in Cuba. Cuba also experienced significant damage, and 20 diaper kits arrived last week and have been distributed to families in need.
191 cloth diaper kits have already been supplied to The Rebecca Foundation. Distributions have started in Orlando & Houston, and as soon as mail is working again for Alysha, she'll have diapers kits in hand to distribute.
We've started specific Hurricane Relief projects, focused on our Diaper Drops in need of help. We also received an emergency grant from GlobalGiving to expedite diaper relief.
Our active Hurricane Relief Projects are:
"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." ~ Mister Rogers
Thank you for the help and hope you bring. I encourage you to reach me at stephanie@jakesdiapers.org. I'd love to hear from you.
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