Shoreline Law Enforcement Diaper & Wipe Drive Kicks Off Feb. 1

GUILFORD, CT — Hundreds of shoreline babies are covered, clean and dry, through the efforts of Bare Necessities, the generosity of the communities they live in, and, with a little help from police.

Bare Necessities kicks off its annual Shoreline Law Enforcement Diaper & Wipe Drive Feb. 1 through Feb. 15.

In 2021, 541 families — from Old Saybrook to East Haven and every shoreline town in between —were helped. More than 300,000 diapers and 200,000 wipes were distributed by Bare Necessities.

The 2021 Shoreline Law Enforcement Diaper & Wipe Drive netted around 62,000 diapers and 84,000 baby wipes.

The annual diaper drive would not be as successful as it has been in recent years without the help of local police departments. Every station from state police Troop F in Westbrook to the East Haven police department is diaper central.

It’s not called the Shoreline Law Enforcement Diaper & Wipe Drive for nothing.

Connecticut State Police Troop F, Clinton Police Department, Madison Police Department, Guilford Police Department, Branford Police Department, North Branford Police Department and East Haven Police Department are all part of the effort and are all collecting diapers and wipes for the drive.

For cash donations to Bare Necessities via Paypal, click here. And, Bare Necessities has an Amazon Wish List for folks to buy directly. Make sure to note which police department you are donating on behalf of during the drive.

The drive officially kicks off Feb. 1 and runs through Feb. 15.

About Bare Necessities

Bare Necessities partners with social service agencies and food pantries along the shoreline where its able to supply diapers and wipes to those families that have been identified by the agencies as having a need — . It is the only recognized diaper bank on the Connecticut shoreline. The non-profit gets its support from all its many volunteers, the annual drive, private donations and through grants from "partners" including The Community Foundation of Middlesex County, The Guilford Foundation, and The Westbrook Foundation Essex Savings Bank, and Guilford Savings Bank.

Bare Necessities, with an office in Clinton, operates out of its Orchard Park Road warehouse in Madison.

It began its work in 2015 then serving just five families. Now, it serves hundreds.