{"id":8179,"date":"2023-04-04T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2023-04-03T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T21:05:25","slug":"bundles-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2023\/04\/04\/bundles-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bundles of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen of our members met recently to package toiletries and baby items.\u00a0 We packed 200 toiletry bags that were distributed to 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grade students at two schools in connection with their hygiene lessons.\u00a0 The toiletry kits contained a washcloth, comb, soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrush. \u00a0We enjoyed the challenge of getting all those items into each bag!\u00a0 This school year, we have donated 928 toiletry kits to 7 schools.<\/p>\n<p>We also assembled 54 packages of baby items.\u00a0 The \u201cBaby Bundles\u201d were delivered to a clinic that serves low-income families and contained a hand-made blanket, soft hairbrush, washcloth, burp bib, 2 onesies, and a board book for the new mom to read to her infant, along with assorted crocheted items such as booties and hats.\u00a0 The Hugs Team at Dunbarton, in Bristow, donated most of the blankets and crocheted items. \u00a0One of our members donated 2 crocheted blankets and another donated cloth blankets, burp bibs and washcloths.<\/p>\n<p>In less than 90 minutes, our members assembled and shared a lot of love and touched the lives of 250 in our community!\u00a0 That\u2019s why we do what we do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen of our members met recently to package toiletries and baby items.\u00a0 We packed 200 toiletry bags that were distributed to 5th\u00a0and 6th\u00a0grade students at two schools in connection with their hygiene lessons.\u00a0 The toiletry kits contained a washcloth, comb, soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrush. \u00a0We enjoyed the challenge of getting all those items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":8180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8186,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/8186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}