Youth can sign up to receive a FREE hygiene bag below!

• This project is open to low income youth ages 5-17 
• Must reside in San Joaquin County. 
• One request every other month can be made. 

This hygiene corner will give San Joaquin County youth in need sustainable access and support to essential hygiene products. Creating a remarkable wave for youth to build confidence and self esteem. 

The need to help hygiene insecurity: 

Children are being sent to school in dirty clothes with unbrushed teeth as parents can no longer afford toiletries. This has become such an epidemic that 46% of teachers have now seen children bullied because of their hygiene issues, according to a report by In Kind Direct. Parents – who are blighted by low wages, high housing costs and benefit cuts – are struggling to afford even the most basic of hygiene products. More than four in 10 parents have gone without hygiene products due to costs; while one in five admit their child wears the same underwear at least two days in a row. Teachers are now seeing a dramatic surge in this type of poverty, with eight in 10 teachers saying they have seen an increase in the number of pupils coming to school unwashed.