Events

Tuesday 10/11/16 - Pajama Sorting and Packing Event at DMACC

October 11 two Iowa Law Enforcement Academy classes, #270 and #271, joined Helen's Pajama Party at DMACC to sort, tag and pack pajamas for Iowa's 10 domestic violence shelters. Eighty officers-in-training made for a lot of able-bodied help which, in the month since the party, has enabled Helen's to deliver:
  • 309 pairs of women's and children's pajamas to Phoenix House/Catholic Charities in Council Bluffs
  • 76 pairs of women's and children's pajamas to CFI Domestic Violence Shelter in Des Moines
  • 30 pairs of women's pajamas to Access Shelter in Ames
  • 75 pairs of women's pajamas to Crisis Intervention Services in Oskaloosa
I am so grateful to ILEA Chaplain Judy Wadding, Instructor Molly Jansen and Tiffany Allison from Soaring Hearts who proposed this highly successful event, and Professor Ronn Newby who arranged for us to use space on the Ankeny DMACC campus and provided student volunteers from Phi Theta Kappa honor society. 

Ronn was also the deserving recipient of the 2016 Helen's Pajama Party Volunteer of the Year Award for organizing Phi Theta Kappa pajama drives the last two years that yielded more than 600 pairs of new pajamas.

Want to help? We're still short 60 women's size 1X, 90 2X, 67 3X and probably 100 kids pajamas needed to complete the orders for the rest of Iowa shelters. 

Helen's Pajama Party
333 East Grand Ave #113
Des Moines, IA 50309
515-244-7706
800-760-7706
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