In this week’s 10 Good Questions Simply the Basics' Chief Executive Officer and Founder Meghan Freebeck told us what motivates her and her organization.
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When a person's basic needs are covered they can focus on bigger goals
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When it comes to purchasing basic items for health and hygiene, from shampoo to toothpaste to deodorant, San Francisco's homeless and extremely low-income residents are often out of luck.
Enter local nonprofit Simply the Basics, which launched last year to provide hygiene kits in reusable tote bags to people and organizations in need. The nonprofit doesn't hand out its tote bags on the street, but exclusively at different social-service sites, to encourage people to go there (and to afford them more dignity)
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“Some women have to choose between spending money on menstrual products, or buying basic necessities for their families.”
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Throughout our unique paths of life, it is safe to say that we are all working towards something...
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This "hygiene bank" collects hygiene products the same way a food bank collects food products.
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The devastating floods in Louisiana have already forced approximately 11,000 people into homeless shelters, and folks in homeless shelters often do not have access to basic hygiene products — especially products like tampons and pads
Read MoreHalcyon Television Network interviews Simply the Basics Founder, Meghan Freebeck, at a community event for the homeless in San Francisco.
Read MoreSimply The Basics fills one gap that many cities leave open. The nation’s first ever hygiene bank, Simply The Basics, offers those in need access to hygiene products and life skills. They hope to relieve other nonprofits of the operational challenge of collecting, storing and distributing hygiene products, so that they are able to turn their focus toward other barriers.
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Meeting personal hygiene needs are hard when you're living on the street. But a new nonprofit is trying to change that. Simply the Basics launched just last year and is providing homeless shelters and nonprofits with basic hygienic needs like tampons- but also soap, toothpaste, deodorant and other personal care items that help keep people healthy, but also help them live with dignity. It’s called the Hygiene Bank. Meghan Freebeck is founder of Simply the Basics. She spoke with KALW's Hana Baba.
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