HomeAid Inland Empire 8th Annual Essentials For Young Lives Campaign To Collect Baby Care Items For Homeless Children

    RIVERSIDE, CA, April 15, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The 8th Annual HomeAid Inland Empire (HAIE) Essentials For Young Lives campaign, a community outreach effort to collect much-needed baby care items for infants and toddlers who reside in homeless shelters throughout San Bernardino and Riverside counties, will take place April 12 - May 17.

The goal for this year's Essentials campaign is to collect more than 300,000 baby care items that will be distributed to ten HomeAid Inland Empire service provider partners that offer housing and services for homeless families and single women with children.

Businesses, community organizations and individuals are invited to participate in the drive by collecting essential baby items, including disposable diapers, baby wipes, baby food and baby hygiene products, as well as paper products like paper towels, toilet paper and tissues.

Bank of America and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians will be primary event sponsors of this year's Essentials For Young Lives collection campaign. In addition to providing funding, Bank of America employee volunteers will be collecting baby care items during the month-long event, and will help inventory and distribute the items collected.

Other HomeAid Inland Empire corporate partners participating in the Essentials campaign will be All Southern California Escrow Inc, CalAtlantic Homes, Complete Builder Service Inc, Fidelity National Title Group, Fuscoe Engineering, Innovative Engineering Solutions, Lennar, Michael Baker International, Richmond American Homes, TriPointe Homes, Union Bank, US Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, as well as the Baldy View and Riverside County Chapters of the Southern California Building Industry Association (BIA).

Stater Bros. Markets and Food4Less will again be providing disposable diapers and other baby care items for this year's Essentials collection campaign.

HomeAid Inland Empire Board member Renee Hunt-Moore of Arrowhead Credit Union will be serving as the Essentials chairperson. Julie Reay, HAIE Event Coordinator, is organizing the collection campaign.

All of the baby care items collected will be warehoused and inventoried at Sunrise Custom Storage in Riverside.

The HomeAid Inland Empire homeless housing service provider partners that will be receiving the Essentials baby care item donations from this year's collection campaign are: Mary's Mercy Center's Veronica's Home and Mary's Table charity operations in San Bernardino; Path of Life Ministries' homeless family shelter facilities in Riverside; Project T.O.U.C.H. in Temecula; Foothill Family Shelter in Upland; Inland Empire Rescue Mission in Corona, Coachella Valley Rescue Mission, Valley Restart Shelter in Hemet, Lutheran Social Services (LSS) Genesis House Community Care Center in Riverside; and Operation Grace in San Bernardino.

For more information about the HomeAid Inland Empire Essentials For Young Lives collection campaign, please contact the HAIE Event Coordinator Julie Reay at [email protected] or Ray Osborne, HAIE Executive Director, at [email protected]. You can also call 951/686-0628 or visit the organization's website at http://www.homeaidie.org to volunteer or make a donation.

HomeAid Inland Empire, the non-profit charity of the Riverside County and Baldy View BIA Chapters, helps build new lives for homeless men, women and children in San Bernardino and Riverside counties through housing and community outreach.

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