RSS holds donation event for National Women’s History Month
By Sean Calderon | Published by April 13, 2018
RSS holds donation event for National Women’s History month. Photos by Delois Blackmon.
In accordance with National Women’s History Month, The Office of Residential Student Services held the Diaper Bash event, a first of its kind, at the New Freshman Residential Hall on Tuesday, March 27.
The event involved student volunteers who helped put together gift and aid baskets for two single, poverty stricken mothers (unnamed) who are in need of supplies to raise their children. While no mothers were present, this was merely a community initiative by RSS in order to raise awareness for these mothers across the U.S, and even the globe.
“We came up with the idea to do this program and got the supplies to put together and send to mothers in need,” said Senior resident assistant (RA) Kendra Clark, who was one of two people who made this program happen. “With it being Women’s History Month, we thought it would be a great idea.”
The program ended fairly quickly, but Clark, along with another Senior resident assistant, Delois Blackmon, stayed behind to lure passerbys to sit down and sign their name in, do crossword puzzles related to the subject and inform them of the reason behind what happened in this program.
Around 25 students signed in and participated in both the program and its aftermath. Some of the contents in the care packages included diapers, pacifiers, baby formula, powder, rash ointment, and other necessary items for infancy.
RSS holds donation event for National Women’s History month. Photos by Delois Blackmon.
“It’s really great that none of these student participants did it for T2K community service or anything like that,” said Blac
kmon. “The makes the value of the program that much meaningful.”
According to a 2012 study from the University of Illinois via Urbana-Champaign, 4.24 million single mothers have lived below the poverty line. Twenty-eight percent of all U.S children have lived with one parent.
This goes to show that one demographic can affect another, given their relativity to each other. This makes programs like the one Clark and Blackmon put together all so important.
“Although this is a one time thing for us, since we’re graduating, it would be great if someone were to take this program and continue it,” said Clark. “That would have the most impact, I believe.”
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