HOW TO HELP

Our COVID-19 Needs List

CLEANING SUPPLIES

To help keep our communal living environment clean and COVID-19-free!

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• Hand soap

• Toilet paper

• Dollar Store laundry detergent for individual use

• Large containers of laundry detergent for house use

• Lysol spray

• Hand sanitizer

• Diapers

• General cleaning supplies

• Paper towels

• Lysol wipes

MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH SUPPLIES

​To help the women in recovery, who are already dealing with so much, face the threat of COVID-19 in the best possible mental and physical state 

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• Devotional or self-help style books

• Phone cards for calling loved ones

• Disposable gloves

PLEASE NOTE: YWCA Helena is not currently accepting any used items because of sterilization concerns.

PAPER & PLASTIC KITCHEN ITEMS

To help keep up with leftovers and in case the need arises for folks to eat meals in their individual rooms rather than in the communal kitchen

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• Paper bowls

• Small paper plates

• Ziploc bags, all sizes, especially gallon-sized

• Saran wrap

• Clamshell food containers

• Plastic utensils

• Paper napkins

• Paper towels

• Kitchen garbage bags (13-gallon)

EASY BREAKFAST, LUNCH, & SNACK FOODS FOR KIDS

To help supplement now that schools and childcare centers have been closed and to take some of the pressure off of Helena Food Share

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• Easy Mac - especially this! Easy Mac is a (relatively) healthy snack that older kids can make for themselves with only water

• Easy, healthy fruits and vegetables, like fruit cups, fruit pouches, packaged apple slices, packaged baby carrots, and sugar snap peas

• Granola bars

• Juice boxes

• Shelf-stable milk

• Cereal

• Shelf-stable applesauce

• Other easy, healthy, kid snacks

• Grocery store gift cards