National Diaper Need Awareness Week
Join us during National Diaper Need Awareness Week, September 23-29, 2024, a time to bring awareness and address the issues of diaper need plaguing much of our community. Join us in our work to make diapers accessible for families across St. Louis.
Across the nation, diaper need is a hidden consequence of poverty. One in two families with young children are unable to afford the diapers necessary to keep their babies clean, dry, and healthy. This is a public health issue recognized as ‘diaper need’. Experiencing diaper need leads to a multitude of problems for both baby and caregiver, affecting not only their physical health, but mental and economic health.
National Diaper Need Awareness Week is an annual campaign, launched in 2012 by the National Diaper Bank Network. Diaper banks across the country work together with their community, and state and local governments to raise awareness about diaper need within their community, and plan events to rally sustainable support for their diaper bank programs.
Every year we take some time to remember why we do what we do. In the US, 1 in 2 families experience difficulty affording diapers or ‘diaper need’. As we celebrate the 12th annual National Diaper Need Awareness Week, we ask our friends, family, and community to come together and support our littlest neighbors by hosting a drive or donating funds. By participating in Diaper Need Awareness Week, you are standing up for the physical, mental, and economic health of STL families and their babies. Sign up below to help us end diaper need today!
Fill the Warehouse 2024
The St. Louis Area Diaper Bank currently works with over 70 partners to identify families experiencing diaper need and together distribute over 250,000 diapers on a monthly basis to guarantee their babies and toddlers are covered. The goal this year is to get our community to rally together to collect enough diapers to sponsor one month of diaper distribution for the 2,500 babies & children we serve each month.
Diaper drives allow us to help intervene and disrupt the need for thousands of our youngest neighbors. If you are interested in contributing to this goal by hosting a drive, please fill out the form below to get started!
Thank you to our 2024 sponsors!
We Filled the Warehouse 2023!
And St. Louis, you did it! After all the drives, donations and sponsor dollars were counted, we’re able to fill our warehouse with 314,269 diapers. This will allow us to serve 6,285 more families and babies in the St. Louis metropolitan area!
From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you! The ability to provide diapers for a child is about so much more than simply keeping their bottoms clean – it is about preserving a child’s dignity and bodily integrity in the face of the indignities and trials of poverty; it is about a parent demonstrating that they can provide for their child despite dramatic financial hurdles.