From Stacy at Great Start Parent Coalition:

The Great Start Parent Coalition decided to do a service project this summer, a project where "parents could help other parents".  We did  some research and found that parents are not give assistance with diapers as they are with food, diapers can cost a family up to $100 a month, and 1 in 5 children born in Kent county are born into poverty. 

There are some families who have to choose whether to purchase diapers for their children or to pay bills and this is a choice NO parent should have to make.  We talked with ACCESS food pantries and they shared some really heart breaking stories with us.  Here is an example, a family came into a pantry asking for diapers but the pantry didn't have any diapers to give to them.  The pantry did have some adult diapers so the family asked if they could have the adult diapers and they would use duct tape to make the diapers "fit" the baby.  Hearing these stories and reading the statistics we decided it was a "no brainer" we needed to do a diaper drive for Kent County.

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The Great Start Parent Coalition has teamed up with ACCESS Food Pantries to have a county wide diaper drive.  Our goal is to collect 25,000 diapers by September 12, 2009!

There are a number of places where you can find a donation box to drop off diapers for the Diaper Drive.  They are:

Fifth Third Banks

YMCA - David D. Hunting and Visser Family

Grand Rapids Public Library branches

Kent District Library branches - Cascade, East GR, Gaines Township, Grandville, Kentwood, Plainfield and Wyoming

Creative Learning Toys

Gymco

Tutor Time Learning Center

Great Clips at Waterford Center, Woodpointe Crossing, and Knapp's Corner Meijer

United Way

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