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Helping High-Risk Mothers Through Positive Pregnancy

A tragedy in one mother’s life has inspired hope and help for high-risk mothers living in Ethiopia. Laura McBrayer is a mother to five children: four living, and Elizabeth, her deceased daughter born with Trisomy 18, a genetic syndrome that is almost always incompatible with life. Laura describes her journey

Diapers Promote Self-Sufficiency for Mom in D.C.

A mother and daughter were stuck in a cycle: though enrolled in a program that provides childcare and support for the mother to work towards self-sufficiency - the two attended only sporadically. The pair began receiving diapers from the Greater DC Diaper Bank, one of Jake’s Diapers Diaper Drop partners.

Shaping Young Minds with Kid-Friendly Volunteering Experience

While we serve littles around the world with every diaper we send, there are other ways we can have an impact on young minds and lives here at our Hope Factory warehouse. Jake’s Diapers offers many kid friendly volunteering opportunities for families to make an impact on the community. We

World Mental Health Day and Diaper Need

October recognizes World Mental Health Day on Oct 10, 2019, an important time for awareness around issues that impact individuals globally. This year the theme is Suicide Prevention. Every 40 seconds, someone dies by suicide - and this year there’s a call to take action and prevent these deaths. Extreme

Ship It! Puerto Rico Diaper Kits Carry Extra Cost to Reach People in Need

We’re happy to say we’ve comfortably settled into our home at Hope Factory, our warehouse in Little Chute, WI, where we have plenty of space to sort, prep and pack cloth diaper kits and other hygiene products for people in need around the world. Seriously, we move a lot of

Give Local Babies Access to Basic Wellbeing

Did you know: Government support programs such as WIC do not provide families with diapers? Yet 60% of WIC recipients wear diapers. Talking about missing access to a basic need! Infants require up to 12 diapers per day, toddlers about 8. Most childcare centers, even free and subsidized facilities require

Jake’s Littles: Family-Friendly Workspace and Volunteer Opportunities

Our commitment to helping families around the world correlates with our family-friendly environment at our Hope Factory in Little Chute and organization in general. As Jake’s Diapers grows, we’ve been happy to add team members and volunteers that support our cause while raising their own littles — and exposing those

Cotton Babies Partners with Jake’s Diapers for Hurricane Relief Drive

(St. Louis, MO – NE Wisconsin) Cotton Babies of St. Louis, Missouri has donated three pallets worth of cloth diapers to Jake’s Diapers for its Hurricane Dorian relief effort. Cotton Babies is the leading supplier of cloth diapers in the world. The pallets contain a combination of approximately 3,500 cloth

Beyond Babies: How Jake’s Serves Special Needs Families

Diapers are an obvious need for babies, the word probably making you think first of handheld humans before anyone else. But, for some, diapers are a need beyond those “tiny” years of life. Some people with special needs continue to wear pull-ups or other assistance into their teen years and

Cloth Diapers to the Rescue! Kanga Care’s Inspiration to Launch and Help Jake’s

For many families around the world, cloth diapers fill an important need in caring for their babies. Not only are cloth an economical choice, but they also come in handy for health and other reasons. This is the heart of the birth story for The Rumparooz cloth diaper brand by