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How a TikTok video helped these college students collect over 200,000 products to help fight period poverty
By Anjali Hyunh and Saba Hamedy, CNN
Updated 1:05 AM ET, Sun April 11, 2021
Alexa Mohsenzadeh, co-founder of Her Drive, holds up donated bras for the group s first Chicago-based drive in July of 2020. (CNN)When Alexa Mohsenzadeh and Jenica Baron posted a video of bras on a fence to TikTok last July, they didn t expect to go viral.
The 19-year-olds from Barrington, Illinois, were promoting a collection drive for bras and hygiene products in the Chicago area, advertising free shipping labels for anyone who donated.
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Ekblad will develop and implement strategic systems for the agency s warehouse, office operations, finance and human resource functions. (St. Louis Area Diaper Bank)
The St. Louis Area Diaper Bank recently appointed Nicole Ekblad as Operations and Finance Manager. In this position, she will develop and implement strategic systems for the agency s warehouse, office operations, finance and human resource functions. Her responsibilities include overseeing the organization s processes in terms of quality, productivity and efficiency.
Prior to joining St. Louis Area Diaper Bank, Ekblad served as the Director of Operations for a nonprofit religious organization. She previously worked as the Associate Director of Operations for a nonprofit alliance that focused on marginalized communities in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ekblad earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Non-Profit and Ministry Leadership from Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I was working with families who had been chronically homeless through my job as a social worker at the Yale Child Study Center.
The genesis for my career change and this book came when I saw an intellectually disabled mother of two reusing a disposable diaper that had been left out to dry. I explained to her that using a fresh diaper every time was essential for her baby’s health. She told me that she could not afford diapers or toilet paper. The family was sharing a cloth towel to clean up after using the toilet.
I made an assumption never a good idea. I assumed she did not understand the sources of help out there for her. I thought, surely, she could use her food stamps to buy these products or that she could get them from WIC. Wrong and wrong. If you want diapers in the United States, you’d best have cash or even better, a credit card so that you can shop online and get the best deals. People without transportation or sufficient cash tend to buy diapers in small quantities a
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