Spring 2021 Newsletter

  • 31,000+ diapers delivered to ArkLaTex families during COVID
  • New office opening soon
  • Give for Good 2021
  • Host a fun diaper drive today
  • ...and more good news!

About Basic Necessities

 Basic Necessities is the only nationally-recognized diaper & period products bank in North Louisiana.

 

Since opening in June 2020, we have delivered:

  • 31,404 diapers
  • 20,060 menstrual products
  • 2,531 incontinence supplies

 

We have served 274 unduplicated clients, and 327 children to date.

This does not include the hundreds of public school & university students who receive free supplies through their schools via Basic Necessities, our neighbors who receive free supplies from Basic Necessities through our community partners, and our mutual aid disaster aid response efforts after Hurricane Laura & the February snowstorms.

 

We are a Shreveport-based nonprofit collects and distributes diapers, period products & incontinence supplies to people in the ArkLaTex region who are experience financial challenges due to unemployment, illness, and/or emergency need.

 

Public assistance programs like WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid do not cover these specific items unless they are prescribed by a doctor as part of a medical treatment plan. 

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Do you or a friend have a need for diapers, period products or incontinence supplies?

 

Do you work at a public school or community service organization that could use free period supplies for your students or clients?

 

Please contact us today by clicking the link below!

 
Apply now

Basic Necessities is a member of the prestigious National Diaper Bank Network, and the Alliance for Period Supplies.

 

Basic Necessities is the only designated diaper & period products bank serving families in the ArkLaTex region.

 
Learn more

Support families.

 

Support children.

 

Support

Basic Necessities

during

Give for Good

this Tuesday,

May 4, 2021.

 
Click to participate

Thanks to a generous grant from the National Diaper Bank Network, Basic Necessities will open an office at 2620 Centenary Boulevard in Shreveport, Louisiana on June 1, 2021.

 
Learn more

Host a diaper and/or period products drive to benefit our clients in the ArkLaTex!

 

This is a great project for businesses, faith groups, and civic clubs - and can be conducted virtually (no contact), or in-person..

 

Click below for simple step-by-step instructions.

 
Host a diaper drive!

Our sponsors and donors are the people & organizations who make our work possible.

 

Click to read more about these amazing folks!

 
Learn more

Donate online with our Amazon Wish List...it's so easy!

 

Click the link below to view items that are needed most often by our clients.

 
Learn more
Phone: 318.751.0851

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