Personal Care Products for Bienvenidos
Bienvendios Food Bank – Personal Care Products Drive
This has been a tough year in many different parts of the world. Catastrophic disasters in the form of hurricanes, massive flooding, earthquakes, wildfires, and disease epidemics are all begging for our support. And they need us.
Unfortunately, we have people in our own neighborhoods who are struggling, too. As the saying goes, charity begins at home.
The Bienvenidos Food Bank has been helping neighbors in need for four decades. Their mission is to provide emergency and supplemental food assistance in ways that promote respect and dignity. They serve 600-900 families every week.
When we reached out to Bienvenidos to ask how we cold support them best, they told us that personal care products were the items they needed the most. These items are more difficult to source and none of these types of items are eligible for purchase using SNAP.
Our goal is to collect and assemble 300 Personal Care Kits this holiday season – 150 by Thanksgiving and 150 by Christmas. The first package assembly party will be Friday 11/17. That means we have exactly 3 weeks to collect all the goods.
Here’s what they need:
- Shampoo
- Hand/bath soap
- Toothpaste and toothbrushes
- Deodorant
These are regular full-size retail items (not travel size). - Feminine products are also very important. Please consider including these in your contribution. They won’t be part of the kits but Bievenidos will gladly accept these items so they can distribute to those who need them.
Please bring in your contributions loose and sort them in the bins/boxes that we’ll have at Vitruvian. On Friday 11/17, we’ll have an assembly party and then deliver the assembled kits to Bienvenidos in time for the week before Thanksgiving.
Providing these kits pre-assembled exactly how they would like them is how we can serve them best. When purchasing these items, please purchase them with a complete kit in mind (so we don’t end up with an unusual surplus of some items over others).
If every Vitruviano helped by providing enough items for just 1 kit, we would have 150 kits ready to assemble in time for the November assembly party.
Thank you for coming together on this! Our contributions will be a great value to an organization that does great work.
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