St. Louis Area Diaper Bank recognized at Health Salute on April 26
As a broke graduate student with four children, Jessica Adams was barely squeaking by financially after her divorce. She was able to provide for her children – and stay in school – with the help of food stamps and utility assistance. But there was one expense that she couldn’t find help with.
Adams’ youngest child was in diapers, and families can’t use food stamps or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) to buy diapers. Adams remembers going to the food pantry one day and asking if they had any diapers. She immediately felt embarrassed and ashamed when the woman told her that they never carried them.
“If a food pantry is there to help people,” Adams said, tearing up at the memory, “and if they didn’t have diapers, I felt like maybe good moms could figure out how to get diapers.”
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