October 15, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
Did You Know that ONE child in FIVE lives in poverty? That’s 15.5 million impoverished children in the United States.
For more than 14 years, the Nashville-based Mother To Mother program has been working to ensure impoverished children in local communities like Smithville and DeKalb County have access to basic essentials that often slip through the cracks of government subsidies and charitable support.
To help meet the need locally, the Calvary Baptist Church of Smithville is partnering with the Mother To Mother non-profit organization to offer free essential baby items to families in need.
Items including diapers, clothes, hats/socks, toys, linens, and baby gear will be given away while supplies last on Monday, October 28 from 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at 830 Foster Road, the location of Calvary Baptist Church. Please bring a bag to receive the items. This event is weather permitting. You do not have to be a resident of DeKalb County to receive these items.
Mother To Mother was founded by Janie Busbee in 2004. She had a heart to connect those wanting to help newborn babies with the case workers and healthcare professionals who saw the greatest needs firsthand.
“We saw the needs that case workers and hospital nurses have when parents don’t have the basic items necessary to care for a child,” she said. “We knew there were people out there who would want to help, but maybe didn’t know how. So we created Mother To Mother to be the conduit between moms who want to help and moms who need it.”
Since its inception, Mother To Mother has distributed diapers, car seats, clothes, cribs, strollers, products, gear, and other essential baby items to low-income children from newborn to age 10.
For more information contact Mother to Mother at mothertomotherinc.org or call 615-540-7000.