Posted by Andy Alt
Recently an article appeared in TIME magazine about a volunteer-operated diaper bank, and how to start one:
Starting a Diaper Bank
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“I saw a mother take a diaper off, empty the solids and put it back on,” says Goldblum. Not having enough diapers, she realized, has far-reaching effects. “Most day-care centers require parents to provide their own,” she says. And without day care, parents can’t look for work or go to school. Cloth diapers don’t help, because low-income families tend not to have washing machines or cars to get to the Laundromat. Moreover, she knew that babies who sit longer in their own waste get more diaper rashes and cry more. And she’d read the studies showing that more crying leads to more physical abuse.
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FOR MORE DETAILS Download a free how-to manual at thediaperbank.org
Andy Alt
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