The Diaper Bank of North Carolina – Lower Cape Fear serves six counties in the region. About a decade ago, they started in the basement of Grace United Methodist Church in Wilmington. After Hurricane Florence hit, Julie Bowling, the bank’s director and the only full-time employee, saw the need to move to a larger facility on 16th Street.
“It has enabled us to take that next step and to grow even more, to serve more counties and more families,” she said.
But experts in maternal health say more people need to realize what the Cape Fear region’s diaper bank has to offer. Nina Williams is UNCW’s clinical assistant professor in the School of Nursing…