Hartford's Junior League Supports Diaper Bank, Homelessness Group

Junior League of Hartford

HARTFORD/WEST HARTFORD, CT — The Junior League of Hartford Tuesday announced it 2023-24 grant recipients — West Hartford-based Journey Home, Inc. and the North Haven-based Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc.

• West Hartford-based Journey Home’s mission is to accelerate progress toward ending homelessness in the Greater Hartford region.

The Junior League of Hartford will be supporting the Hand Up Program, which fills a gap of providing furniture to people who have experienced homelessness and are now furnishing their apartments.

Junior League volunteers will help with organizing the warehouse for clients’ shopping and making furniture deliveries.

More information can be found at https://journeyhomect.org/.

• The Diaper Bank of Connecticut, based in North Haven, provides basic health needs including diapers, period supplies and incontinence products to those in need throughout Connecticut, as these basic human needs are not being met for many families living in poverty.

They have distributed more than 33 million free diapers to date and our volunteers will be joining the distribution effort and serving as regional ambassadors in Hartford.

More information can be found at https://www.thediaperbank.org.

The league is also recognizing its 2019-22 community project, the Boys & Girls Club of Hartford SMART Girls Program.

Junior League members have volunteered 200-plus hours with the Boys & Girls Clubs and the SMART Girls program, even going virtual as it navigated the pandemic.

Founded in 1921, Junior League of Hartford is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women’s leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration and training.

For more information on supporting our mission or becoming a member, visit jlhartford.org or contact us info@jlhartford.org.