The Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties (JLDOC) is a proud partner of the Diaper Bank of North Carolina. This organization’s mission is to increase awareness of and access to essential hygiene items to promote dignity, health, and quality of life for the people of North Carolina. The impact to the communities include but are not limited to:

• Ensuring that families with babies and children living with poverty have an adequate supply of diapers.
• Improving access to personal hygiene products and other basic necessities to remove barriers to education, employment, or personal fulfillment.
• Distributing basic needs through community partners in order to encourage access to their services and programs, thereby empowering people to become self-sustaining and develop their full potential.
• Advocating for policy reform so that diapers and period products are included in the definition of and provision for the basic human needs of families.
• Enhancing community understanding that access to basic personal hygiene is integral to physical and mental health, education, employability, and quality of life and to raise awareness that these needs are not being met for families living with poverty.
• Creating a diaper bank model that can be shared, replicated, and adopted by all counties in North Carolina.

For more information, please visit the Diaper Bank of North Carolina’s website here.