Diapers are expensive, as any new parent or caretaker of an incontinent adult can attest. The Shelby County Democratic Party’s latest community service project, led by Public Relations Committee Chair Leslie Tyus, was successful in helping families who struggle to obtain these necessary supplies by organizing a Diaper and Wipes Drive. Not the most glamorous of products, disposable diapers and wipes make a huge difference in the lives of people who depend upon them, no pun intended. And nothing is more stressful than to run out of diapers when money is tight.
On a recent Saturday at the Community Room at Shelby County Services Building, members of the Democratic Party plus their friends converged on the site with bags and boxes and loaded car trunks. A total of 2073 baby items, including diapers and packs of wipes, plus 493 adult care products, including incontinence garments and packs of adult-size wipes, were collected.
Shelby Baptist Association Ministry, Oak Mountain Ministries, and
the Elder Justice Center of Alabama, an arm of the Middle Alabama Area Agency on Aging, received all the donated items and will distribute them to needy families and individuals county-wide.