Junior Women’s League presents $12,000 grant to Partnership for Children of Johnston County Submitted by JWL OF SMITHFIELD
SMITHFIELD — Recently the Junior Women’s League of Smithfield presented a Community Impact Grant award to Partnership for Children of Johnston County for $12,000. Funds were raised during JWL’s Diaper Drive in the fall of 2020. Due to a quick pivot from the Junior Women’s League of Smithfield’s TouchA-Truck Committee, the hard work of members and the incredible support of the community (and beyond), JWL was also able to donate more than 31,000 diapers, as well as wipes and diaper creams, to help establish a Diaper
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Closet at PFCJC, the first in Johnston County. The county and the towns of Benson, Clayton, Four Oaks, Princeton, Smithfield and Wilson’s Mills issued proclamations declaring October Diaper Need Awareness month, bringing further attention to an issue that many people in Johnston County struggle with. “The Partnership for Children of Johnston County needed our help with filling their diaper closet and although our original plans were altered this year, we still had a goal of collecting as many items as we could to help as many families as possible in Johnston
County,” said Dana Satterfield and Destiny Savage, the committee cochairs. “Our members and our community pulled together to make our Touch-A-Truck Diaper Drive a success despite the odds
