SCAN, Serving Children and Adults in Need Inc., is seeking diaper donations through its Project HOPES initiative to support families with young children across Webb, Zapata and Jim Hogg counties.<\/p>\n
In late June, Project HOPES launched its annual diaper drive, asking the community to help provide an essential resource for local families.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Diaper Drive is underway, and we need your help,\u201d the organization said. \u201cWhether you donate one pack or several, every contribution helps provide essential support to local families with young children.\u201d<\/p>\n
SCAN is accepting new, unopened packages of diapers in all sizes, as well as Pull-Ups.<\/p>\n
According to a 2022 study by the National Diaper Bank Network, 89% of Texas families receiving diapers are employed but still unable to afford an adequate supply. The study also found that about 1.1 million children younger than 3 are at risk of diaper insecurity. Among them, 25% are infants enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), while 19% are children younger than 5 receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.<\/p>\n
Donations may be dropped off Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the following locations:<\/p>\n
605 N. U.S. Highway 83, Suite H<\/p>\n
For more information, contact Gabriela Perez at 956-608-3809.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCAN, Serving Children and Adults in Need Inc., is seeking diaper donations through its Project HOPES initiative to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-358372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}