Help A Mother Out Bay Area Diaper Bank<\/a>. <\/p>\n“Every mom loves her baby,” Truong said. “I felt like this was an opportunity that was easy and simple to give back.”<\/p>\n
From its Oakland warehouse, Help A Mother Out has given away 10 million free diapers a year through a network of social service partners.<\/p>\n
Kyshadah McGowan-Smith first received diapers for her daughter Kyomi Smith after she was born prematurely two years ago.<\/p>\n
“There’s no words to explain what them being able to help me with diapers is because it’s helped me be able to help her and it was one thing I didn’t have to worry about,” McGowan-Smith said.<\/p>\n
Lyn-Tise Jones, Help A Mother Out deputy director, says the nonprofit empowers moms like McGowan-Smith.<\/p>\n
“It means everything to them” Jones said. “They get to make the decision between buying diapers and buying groceries. It is one burden lifted from them.”<\/p>\n
Truong also helped create the nation’s first citywide publicly-funded diaper bank in San Francisco in 2015. It offers families on CalWorks, CalFresh, and Medi-Cal a month’s supply of diapers each month for children under age two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
More than 22,000 children have gotten free diapers through these efforts. Board secretary Claudia Cese\u00f1a credits Truong’s leadership for helping countless families. <\/p>\n
“It’s people like Lisa that really see a problem, come up with a solution and don’t overcomplicate things,” Cese\u00f1a said. “Just simple: get diapers to babies, support families in that way.”<\/p>\n
In most cases, the diapers come from the nonprofit’s private label, ELO Baby. ELO stands for Every Little One.<\/p>\n
Truong says it’s one way of making moms feel like they’re getting a gift, not a handout, from the 17-year-old diaper bank. <\/p>\n
“It has been a train ride with no brakes,” Truong said. “We’ve distributed 80 million diapers since our founding.” <\/p>\n
Truong says she is grateful for the support of her staff, volunteers and community partners for making it all work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland woman’s nonprofit has been giving away free diapers to Bay Area families in need for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-408844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}