200,000 Diapers Arrive at Food Bank
Written by Carol Carter Friday, July 29 2011
On July 27, Huggies donated 200,000 diapers to the Atlanta Community Food Bank as part of its “Every Little Bottom” national campaign, which was launched a year ago to get diapers to babies in need.
In a recent survey of food bank partner agencies, 44 percent of respondents said the need for nonfood items has increased dramatically. This includes everything from personal hygiene items and diapers to paper products and cleaning supplies.
A 2010 study commissioned by Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies brand revealed that one in three American mothers struggles to provide diapers for her babies. Often, she sacrifices other basic needs – such as food, utilities, and childcare – so that she can put a clean diaper on her children. The study found that babies needing diapers suffer more physically and emotionally when their dirty diapers cannot be changed.
People wanting to help put diapers on babies in need can go to www.ACFB.org and click on the link to the wish list page. Diaper donations will be delivered directly to the food bank.
The Atlanta Community Food Bank distributes more than 30 million pounds of food and grocery products annually to more than 700 partner nonprofit organizations that provide food assistance to families and individuals in 38 counties in metropolitan Atlanta and North Georgia.
Carol Carter was a founding staff member of Atlanta Business Chronicle in 1978. During her 18-year tenure, she served as editor not only of the Chronicle but also of seven Chronicle special publications including the award-winning Counterpart, a magazine for Atlanta businesswomen; ChopTalk, official magazine of the Atlanta Braves; and Atlanta Now, which serves the Atlanta convention and visitors industry.
Carter is the author of Junior Dragster Dreams: How Sam Found His Own Ride, the first only children’s novel about junior drag racing. She also wrote Hope & Healing, the 125-year history of Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta. She was an on-air reporter in Atlanta for WXIA-TV’s Noonday show for two years and was writer and editor of the Optical Data School Media team that produced award-winning videos for classroom use. Carter is an alumnus of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
