Diapers Offer Lifeline for Babies, Families
Retired teacher founds the area’s first diaper bank.
The importance of diapers on quality of life, even life itself, wasn’t a connection Richboro’s Pat Kennedy made before reading about it in a 2009 Time magazine article. Kennedy, who last year retired from Newtown Friends School, where she taught first grade and kindergarten for 10 years, was surprised to read what diapers mean to those living below the poverty line. For those of us with adequate means, diapers are a necessity – one we’re willing to drive to the convenience store in the middle of the night to get. We can clip coupons. We have numerous supermarkets and big box stores to which we can drive. We can even choose to send less refuse to landfills by going the cloth diaper route, which requires our own washer and dryer. Laundromats…
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