Drive-Thru Donation Saturday: Help Fill Community Fridge, Diaper Bank

GUILFORD, CT — Helping to feed those in need and keeping babies clean and dry is the goal of a drive-thru donation event set for Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon.

The Guilford High School Interact Club joins Connecticut Shoreline Indivisible, Black and Brown United in Action and the First Congregational Church of Guilford for the diaper and food donation drive. The event is being held in the commuter lot at exit 58 off of I-95 in Guilford.

The high school's Interact Club is sponsored by the Guilford Rotary Club and is dedicated to community service.

All food donations will go to Fridge Haven, one of several hundred "community refrigerators" that have popped up across the country to help those with food insecurity. Fridge Haven has been operating for six months, and like other "Freedges" has the motto "take what you need, leave what you can."

They're open 24 hours a day every day of the week and are located in the back of the Varick AME Church at 242 Dixwell Ave., in New Haven.

Read the New Haven Arts Council story about Fridge Haven here.

Unlike Fridge Haven, which popped up in response to the pandemic, the North Haven-based Diaper Bank of CT has been serving families in all eight CT counties for 18 years. It supplies infant, child, and adult diapers as well as period supplies to partnering agencies. The Diaper Bank of CT has seen a dramatic increase in need for diapers since the pandemic began.

And, donations may still be dropped off Thursday and Friday at JC and Me Salon, Breakwater Books, Bishop's Farm Market and Palumbo’s Automotive.