Canton Public Library Hosts Fifth Annual Stuff the Truck Diaper Drive

CPL Hosts Fifth

Annual Stuff the Truck Diaper Drive



Library Hopes To Set New Collection Record

CANTON,

MI— The countdown to the fifth annual Stuff

the Truck Diaper Drive has officially begun. Canton Public Library hosts

this year’s Diaper Drive on November 20 and 21 with hopes of doubling last

year’s donations. The library is counting on the generous members of the Canton

community, and surrounding Metro Detroit communities, to contribute to the

biggest diaper drive in Michigan.  Last year, the library

collected 38,954 diapers in

two days and hopes to beat that total in 2013.

"We are thrilled that the

Canton Library is running a diaper drive for the 5th year in a row to support

our annual fall drive," said Marybeth Levine, Founder of the Detroit Area

Diaper Bank. "This year's Stuff the Truck event will be crucial in

helping us reach our bigger goal this fall, to collect 250,000 diapers by

Thanksgiving. The library has already helped bring in more than 100,000 diapers

to the Diaper Bank over the past four years, helping us help thousands of our

neighbors in need. We're asking the community to come out and support us again

this year and help us continue to make a difference with diapers across Metro

Detroit."

The

“Stuff the Truck” event will accept diapers during library business hours, 9:00

AM to 9:00 PM on Wednesday, November 20 and Thursday, November 21. The truck,

donated by the Hulett family, owners of Fat Chef in a Little Coat, will be

parked in the library lot and ready to accept donations until it is stuffed.

Diaper donations may be of any size or brand, baby through adult, even swim

diapers or other incontinent supplies.

Open packages of diapers are accepted, if labeled with size.  

The Detroit Area Diaper Bank, a nonprofit charitable

organization, dispenses the diapers to SE Michigan partner agencies serving

people in need. The Detroit Area Diaper

Bank’s mission is to raise awareness about the large hole in the “safety net,”

which results in an unmet need for diapers in our community’s most vulnerable

populations — babies from low-income households, the elderly and people with

disabilities. The Detroit Area Diaper Bank strives to address this largely

unknown and unmet need by calling upon the community to engage in this effort

and donate or make financial donations to help reach the overall 250,000 diaper

goal.

For more information about the

Stuff the Truck Diaper Drive event and

the Detroit Area Diaper Bank, visit www.detroitareadiaperbank.org.

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