What: Welcome Baby 3rd Annual Coat Drive

Who: Welcome Baby Family Resource Center
Durham County Cooperative Extension

When: Now until December 31st

Where: Various collection points located at Durham County buildings

Facts:

• Welcome Baby’s annual winter coat drive is on again and began last week.
• Seeking to keep children clothed and warm this winter, the Giving Closet, a program of the Durham County Cooperative Extension’s Welcome Baby Program, will organize coats, hats, gloves and scarves collected in the drive until December 31, 2014.
• Items for collection are needed in sizes newborn to 7/8 years.
• Last year, the 2nd Annual Welcome Baby Coat Drive yielded 350 coats, 87 hats, 82 pairs of gloves and 18 scarfs.
• Drop off locations for this year’s drive include:
o Durham County Cooperative Extension: 712 Foster Street
o Durham County Main Library: 300 N. Roxboro Street
o South Regional Library 4505 S. Alston Ave
o North Regional Library 221 Milton Road
o Southwest Regional Library 3605 Shannon Road
• For more information, contact Patience Mukelabai, parent educator for the Welcome Baby Family Resource Center, at (919) 560-7392 or email pmukelabai@dconc.gov.

About the Durham County Welcome Baby Family Resource Center
Welcome Baby Family Resource Center provides parenting education and support to families with young children in the Durham community. Services are available for free to all residents with children from birth to five years of age. Welcome Baby is a program of the Durham County Cooperative Extension and is partially funded by Durham’s Partnership for Children, a Smart Start Initiative, and the Duke Endowment. Welcome Baby serves approximately 10,000 families a year, buy providing parenting classes, car seat classes, cribs, developmental newsletters and through the Giving Closet. For more information, visit http://www.welcomebaby.org/

About the Welcome Baby Giving Closet
The Giving Closet is where families in Durham shop at no cost for clothes, diapers and baby equipment for their children five years and younger. The services are open to all Durham County and City residents.

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