CNY Diaper Bank Helps Reduce Poverty’s Effects in Syracuse CNY Diaper Bank Helps Reduce Poverty's Effect in Syracuse

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When you see babies…you usually see… diapers.
But in Syracuse, New York, one of every two children lives in poverty… and diapers are a cost that many families can’t afford.

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(“You’re just leaving families to figure it out, and a lot of times families have to choose between buying food and buying diapers.”)

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That’s Michela Hugo. Hugo founded the CNY Diaper Bank in 2016. The mother of three knew that diapers cost up to 100 dollars a month… But what Hugo didn’t know was that diapers aren’t covered by any form of government assistance. That’s what led her to create the CNY Diaper Bank.

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(“This is a crisis for families. They have nowhere to turn. And the Diaper Bank is working to fill that gap as best we can.”)

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Volunteers logged nearly 4,000 hours helping out last year. The Diaper Bank partners with 31 agencies, which order diapers every month for the families with which they work.

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(“We package them up here. We prep orders and they pick them up once a month and they distribute them through various programs around the county.”)

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And when families don’t have to worry about having an adequate number of diapers, lots of good things happen.

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(“It frees up their resources, their limited funds to buy other basic needs like food and hygiene products, pay a bill, get transportation.”)

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The CNY Diaper Bank distributed nearly 600,000 diapers last year. This year, Hugo tells me they’re on pace for over one million. Reporting from the CNY Diaper Bank, Marcus Gronauer, NCC News.