Nina and friends told me story about a mom that usually comes to them on Mondays. She has a young child, as well as a 6 month old baby boy. Because she believes that larger sized diapers hold more, and therefore, are cheaper in cost, she puts the baby boy in size 5, even though he really fits a size 3. The baby is six months old and is still wearing newborn clothes, because the mothers doesn’t have bigger clothes for him to wear. So his clothes are too tight, and he stays in the Size 5 diaper longer than he probably should.

Can you imagine not having enough diapers for your baby? Did you know that diapers are not covered under safety net programs like food stamps or WIC? For many families in crisis this can mean being forced to choose between affording other basic human needs — shelter, food, medicine, or diapers. This year Mother’s Day is on May 9th. We’ll be celebrating the entire month of May both by raising diapers and awareness of this basic human need. Won’t you join us in helping a mother out?

Just days before I was contacted by a desperate employee of a Bay Area family shelter. Eight babies had recently come through their doors and they were desperate for diapers. After pitching the idea to the school’s director, we decided that doing a good deed for these babies would be a great opportunity for the kids to directly help others.

Remember the Diaper Genie in Chicago?
Father Jim recently wrote a guest column in the Northwest Herald.
Many people ask me why such an obvious human need such as diapers is on the food stamps “taboo” list …

BIG THANK YOU to a wonderful mom-run enterprise, Cotton Babies for supporting our cause. They must have heard our tweet about how we had found an agency who might have some families who are in …

“…with every face, every new name, every threadbare, sweat-stained T-shirt or matted head of hair, I feel a mixture of pity and disgust, and I am ashamed of myself.”