One of the greatest needs we have at Catholic Charities — at the five Gabriel Houses that serve new moms and on the family floors of our shelters — is diapers. So we have launched a drive to gather 100,000 diapers for newborns and infants by the end of October. We’re at nearly 30 percent of our goal and we need your help.
The Bottom Line Diaper Bank is led by volunteers through Catholic Charities. Diapers, as any parent knows, are very expensive. To provide diapers to children, whose parents are struggling financially, is a critical need. And when we look at the landscape of those we are serving, a fast-growing homeless population is young single mothers with children.
We’ve launched this drive to help families provide for their children a basic element. Please dig deep and help us collect 100,000 diapers for distribution to the needy.
There are two ways to participate. You can go online at www.ccdenver.org/diaper to donate cash, which will allow us to buy diapers directly. All donations made through the website will go to purchase diapers. For every $25 contributed, we can buy about 100 diapers for distribution.
If you would like to buy the diapers yourself in order to make an in-kind donation, go to the same website link, www.ccdenver.org/diaper, to make arrangements. We appreciate your help and I know the families served will be grateful.
In the future, we intend to incorporate our diaper drives through the parishes, so people can drop off diapers directly there and we can pick them up. We’re also reaching out to all the Knights of Columbus councils throughout northern Colorado and asking them to conduct two food drives, two diaper drives, a coat drive and a back-to-school drive for charity, through the parishes. We want to get people focused on participating in these charitable activities through their parishes. We welcome your participation.
Visit Catholic Charities online at www.ccdenver.org or call 303-742-0828 to learn more, volunteer or make a donation.
To Donate
To make a donation to the 100,000 Diaper Campaign, go to www.ccdenver.org/diaper.
