Mamapalooza Collects Self-Care Items for Moms in Shelters

Mamapalooza collects self-care items for moms in shelters

Young volunteers making gift bags for moms facing tough circumstances. CRANFORD, NJ — Every mom deserves a special Mother’s Day. First Presbyterian Church of Cranford helped moms in local shelters and service programs celebrate as the community came together to create gift bags for them. Items in the bags included nail polish, nail clippers, nail files, spa headbands, shower steamers, shower caps, bath poufs, body lotion, Chapstick, full-size to…

Around a huge table full of clothes, shoes, toys and books, eight women select the contents of the bags and go ordering according to what was donated to the recently armed community wardrobe. The women make up the “Club de Madres Solidarias”, an initiative that arose in the face of the need, especially of clothing, of the children attending the Greek school of San Vicente neighborhood, located to the southeast of the city of Córdoba, to which th…