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Homeless Hygiene Drive Tops $723,000
May 02, 2025
The Family Radio Network’s 33 rd annual Help for the Homeless Hygiene Drive celebrates another record-breaking year! Over $723,000 worth of new hygiene and cleaning supplies now stock the shelves of 137 crisis programs in 22 communities across Wisconsin. The Family Radio Network thanks over 1,050 businesses, churches, and schools who hosted collection boxes and all those who so generously donated these products to help their local crisis programs. We partner with area crisis programs and homeless coalitions by inviting the community to donate needed hygiene and cleaning items for their local agencies through the Help for the Homeless Hygiene Drive. These donations make it possible for local crisis programs to direct their limited financial resources to provide qualified staff, safe housing, nutritious food, education, and counseling to those they serve.
A client of a participating local community support agency stopped buying laundry detergent a long time ago as other things, like rent, food, and medicine became higher priorities. The client had been hand washing her shirts in the sink, rotating what she wore, and hoping folks did not notice the smell. She later shared she had done three loads of laundry the day she’d been given the soap, and she said, “The smell of clean clothes filled my tiny apartment. For the first time in a while, I felt like I could breathe easier. It wasn’t just the detergent. It was hope, wrapped in a detergent bottle. A reminder that I mattered and that someone cared.”
The Family Radio Network, along with the 137 participating crisis programs, thanks everyone who hosted boxes, donated, volunteered with, promoted, and sponsored the drive! Businesses, churches, and schools participate by placing collection boxes in their high traffic areas and inviting their own staff, members, and students to donate. Financial donations are also welcome.
Since 1992, The Family Radio Network’s Help for the Homeless Hygiene Drive has provided 6.7 million dollars’ worth of hygiene and cleaning supplies for local Wisconsin crisis programs, with donations remaining in the communities where they are collected.
The CSA Motherhouse was a donation site again this year and the community is grateful to all of those who contributed to the donation boxes.
Save the date! Next year’s dates are tentatively planned for February 22 through March 15, 2026.
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