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Meet The Nappy Collective

Meet The Nappy Collective
Meet The Nappy Collective

The nappy collective. Photo: supplied

You can have a light-bulb moment anywhere. For Sandra Jacobs, 35, it was in her kitchen in 2013, while clutching a pack of nappies her toddler had outgrown. The Melburnian decided to donate them to a local women’s shelter. “But I couldn’t give them just six nappies,” explains Jacobs.

She decided to bolster her offering via social media, asking other parents to donate their children’s unused nappies. Jacobs was overwhelmed by the response: 1500 nappies were sent in, and so, The Nappy Collective was born.

Today, the charity is run by five Melbourne women and, at three nationwide collection drives last year, they gathered 226,000 nappies to be distributed among women’s shelters around the country. Jacobs says their success is simple: “You don’t have to be a multimillionaire to be a philanthropist,” she says. “We can all do something to help.”

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