A Fitting Match

Mothers Helping Mothers is more than simply an organization to donate used clothes to and it is more than a place that gives diapers to those in need.  It is a place for working families in need to turn to when they need help providing basic goods for their families. When things are generously donated, we often are unaware of how our used items touch the lives of others.  But on this day at MHM, the two worlds collided and MHM was able to match a donated item with a family in need very quickly.  The encounter goes like this...A mom arrived with a tiny baby, a 4 year old, and a toddler one morning. She was struggling to push her broken old stroller (made for one baby), while holding the hands of her small children. She had walked to MHM. Right after she arrived, a man walked in with a beautiful, almost new, double stroller. We spotted a match made in heaven and gave the stroller directly to the mother. Not only did this mom cry, the dad who brought the stroller in to donate cried. He had some other little toys he gave her children as well; it felt like Christmas morning. She also found clothing and diapers she really needed. When the father who donated the stroller was leaving, he said, "I can't believe I almost didn't bother driving up here to donate this stroller. I really get how this works now, and I feel great about being a part of it".