A while ago I talked about an important fundraiser that I was a part of at work. This was called a Diaper Drive for the HIV Perinatal Program. This program provides many services to women who are pregnant and HIV Positive.
Our employee based group decided to try and help this program provide diaper bags to these new mom's because most of the are struggling financially. We tried to find a group that would sponsor the bags so that we can have employee's fill them. I talked to the AMA Alliance, which is a group I am in. It is made up of spouses of med students, residents and physicians. I brought up the idea and they approved it, by giving us a $500 donation to purchase the bags. This was an amazing gift and it made our drive very successful. We had so much support from the hospital staff that we not only filled all of the purchased bags but had money to buy more as well as provide over $300 in Target gift cards! It was amazing to see and I was very proud to be part of this amazing, successful Diaper Bag Drive!!
This is a picture we took when we handed all the bags over to the nurse who heads up this program, she was very overwhelmed and said that for some women, this will be the only thing they get for their baby.
That alone, was worth all the thanks in the world!
6 comments:
What a great cause! And an even greater successful. So glad to hear that you were able to pull together such an amazing amount of stuff. Nice work!
Congratulations on working towards such a wonderful cause! That's really exciting.Did you hear about Selma Hayak's cause through Unicef and Pampers?
Yeah you! That is so cool!
What a great thing you did! And a great cause.
You rock!!!
Liz, you are simply amazing! What a great project, and to a wonderful cause. You definately earned a gold star today!
Very cool ideas, the bags look overly full, I'm sure they were appreciated.
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