This month, our local comites, our local community Hombro a Hombro committees, are organizing a clothing drive for newborns who are delivered at Hombro a Hombro clinics.
Many of our community members cannot afford even the most basic necessities for their children. They arrive from the campo without blankets, beanies, or clothes for their newborns.
Following the opening of our new hogar, or home away from home, in Concepción, our comites recognized the need to provide needy families with proper newborn clothing.
This week, we visited local area schools to get out the word. Later this month, our staff, local volunteers, and comite members will go door to door soliciting donations.
- Professors from the Santa Lucia Colegio (technical high school) support the community clothing drive.
- Kate Holbrook, director of nursing at the Santa Lucia Clinic, speaks to local schoolchildren about the community clothing drive.
- Kate Holbrook, director of nursing at the Santa Lucia Clinic, speaks to local schoolchildren about the community clothing drive.
- It looks like we’ll have plenty of volunteer helpers!
- Prof. Rene, head of the Santa Lucia comite and a local teacher, discusses the clothing drive with his students.
- Prof. Rene, head of the Santa Lucia comite and a local teacher, discusses the clothing drive with his students.