Dc Diaper Bank Essay

With health as our main issue, my service group traveled to the DC Diaper Bank on Tuesday, November 17, to get a glimpse of what the organization was about. We were welcomed with open arms, and shown an informational film about the non-profit. The organization is similar to a food pantry, but instead they focus on diapers, and infant needs. The four of us were placed at the last four volunteer stations, as the non-profit was not in an active search for volunteers. Our first job was to wrap sets of twenty-five diapers in saran wrap, according to their size. They are then transported to the other side of the warehouse, the “out” side, where they are arranged according to size for community organizations to come pick up and deliver to the families in need. We spent a large portion of our time at the DC Diaper Bank, separating orders and helping load cars full of diapers. These orders often consisted of four-hundred plus packages. You may ask yourself how a non-profit can supply all of these diapers, but the answer remains as donations. Large companies donate their surplus diapers, and parents donate diapers that they cannot use anymore because their children have outgrown them. These generous …show more content…
When the non-profit was starting, the individual v. community paradigm arose. The owners, who had a colicky baby of their own, needed diapers for their own child, but then they began to think about those less fortunate that could not afford diapers for their own children, and decided that they needed to help the community and not just themselves, and hence the DC Diaper Bank was born. It is an ends-based value corporation, in providing the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Not only did the founders help themselves spiritually, but they helped so many families