National Diaper Need Awareness Week
Join us during National Diaper Need Awareness Week, September 15-21, 2025, 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 is 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 collaborate with their community, state, and local governments to raise awareness about diaper need within their communities 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 observe the 13th 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 National Diaper Need Awareness Week, you are standing up for the physical, mental, and economic health of STL families and their babies.
How to Get Involved
You can participate in the following ways:
- Attend an awareness event
- Sign up to host a diaper drive (physical or virtual)
- Purchase diapers from Wish List
- Donate towards our fundraiser or setup your own peer-to-peer fundraising campaign (Click HERE)
Interested in sponsorship? Email Lee Nave at lnave@stldiaperbank.org for more information.
For more information about National Diaper Need Awareness Week contact Jerrica at jfranks@stldiaperbank.org
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Thank you to our 2025 sponsors!
We Filled the Warehouse 2024!
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.