With Valentine’s Day around the corner, February is sure to be one of those heart-filled month as we keep in mind all the people we love. Of course, this includes family. What’s up for debate is how we define family, certainly something that is different for each individual. For example,
Global Network
A Year In Review
We’re lucky to have great donors and supporters behind our cause to fuel our reach around the world. Many volunteers that start out at one of Jake’s Diapers amazing packing parties – where we prep cloth diaper kits for delivery – are often blown away at all the places we
Project Update: Give Women & Girls Dignity, Period
During 2018, Jake’s Diapers made a lot of exciting shifts to continue supporting individuals impacted by poverty around the world. While we started our foundation focused on helping babies have enough diapers, it didn’t take long for us to realize that hygiene needs, in general, create additional barriers for people
Drop 11: Puerto Rico
Poverty isn’t a limited experience. People across the world experience the pains of this devastating scenario due to various circumstances – whether ongoing or unexpected, such as a natural disaster. In Puerto Rico, the people we serve struggle with both. While poverty has been a long-term struggle in the U.S.
Drop 10: HEAL Ministries
Poverty can be an endless cycle. In Uganda, for example, a giant hurdle for a quality life is lack of education. Schooling, however, is not free in the country. Often, a parent who wasn’t afforded an education is unable to afford that for his or her children, and the cycle
Drop 9: The Episcopal Diocese of Puerto Rico
When a natural disaster strikes, we’re quick to realize the immediate impact: devastation, destruction, and displacement. As time goes on, it’s easy for those far away to forget, to continue with daily life without thinking about lingering consequences. At Jake’s Diapers, we remain actively present in Puerto Rico, supporting individuals
Drop 7: Real Hope for Haiti
Survival mode. That’s how most people in the area that Real Hope for Haiti serves life, said Licia Betor of the organization. “Each day they are trying to figure out how to eat,” she said. “We serve a large area that is very rural. Most people eat once a day.
Drop 4: Sarah’s Covenant Homes
“The biggest hurdle that our children face is lack of family.” Lydia Pagan of Sarah’s Covenant Homes in India explained the undeniable truth, and a problem her organization is driven to do something about. Many children with special needs often find themselves alone in India. Parents feel driven to abandon
Drop 3: Children’s Health Ministries
They go hungry. Many women and children in Carrefour, a “slum” just outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, struggle with poverty and find themselves many days with little, if any, food available to eat. “Women in the area are often single, unemployed and uneducated,” said Mickey McRoberts of Children’s Health Ministries. “With small
The Promise of Forever
Many special needs individuals experience a difficult life in India: stigmas and poverty drive parents to abandon their children at a young age – even as an infant – fearing the inability to support their children, among other concerns. Sarah’s Covenant Homes is a nonprofit child care organization in India