MILBRIDGE, ME — Women for Healthy Rural Living, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization focused on advancing and promoting the health and well-being of the woman, her family, and her community, is undertaking a Virtual Diaper Drive. Maine Seacoast Mission is helping WHRL distribute their diapers to area parents in need of them.
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The Consequences of Diaper Need
Babies who remain too long in a soiled diaper are exposed to potential health risks.
Parents trying to keep their babies in diapers may be making multiple trips to the store, each time increasing their risk for Covid-19 exposure. And if they cannot afford to purchase in bulk, the risk increases with every outing.
Buying diapers should not be a matter of life and death.
Participating in a virtual diaper drive allows us to purchase diapers in bulk, so our dollars go further than yours would at the grocery store!
Our diapers will be distributed through the Maine Seacoast Mission Food Pantry in Cherryfield.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — We are opening the food pantry tomorrow to give out eggs, produce, milk and bread. Will you put a post out stating that we will be open tomorrow from 9 am -12 pm to give out those items? Click here for directions.
Thanks,
Megan Smith
Community Resource Coordinator
Maine Seacoast Mission
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Our drive thru Food Pantry will be open from 9-12 tomorrow to give out extra milk, bread, produce and eggs? Click here for directions.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Downeast Campus Facilities Manager Scott Shaw sent a photo this morning and a note of explanation. “I just picked up a second round of milk from Shaw’s this morning. Headed to Walmart for more! We had a load on Monday, another today, and the grocers told me to come back tomorrow.
“We will wait until next Monday. I think Washington County will be good until then,” said Scott Shaw.
A big THANK YOU to both Walmart and Shaw’s for their help keeping the Mission Food Pantry well-stocked with good food for the people we serve.
Maine is now facing the greatest food, isolation, and health care crisis in our generation.
Now may be the time to join the Mission as a volunteer and help your neighbors.
Since 1905 the Seacoast Mission has helped support some of Maine’s most isolated communities on the outer islands and along the Downeast coast.
And the Mission is here to help now — with the help of some timely volunteers. Maybe that’s you.
If you can make phonecalls to isolated seniors at home, deliver boxes of food to the driveways of folks who need them, or run necessary errands for those who can’t — you can help.
Get started now by sending an email to Resources@seacoastmission.org — or call 207-546-5860 and ask for the Volunteer Application.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Mission Community Resources Coordinator Megan Smith sent these photos from our Downeast Campus Food Pantry in Cherryfield, ME with a thank you note to Shaw’s and Walmart.
Megan says, “I wanted to send these pictures along. We received so much produce and bread from Walmart and Shaw’s yesterday that we have an abundance.
“It does my heart good to see our pantry full,” said Megan.
