Bring Birth Kit Items To Tuckahoe High, Middle Schools In Eastchester

EASTCHESTER, N.Y. -- The Tuckahoe Middle and High Schools in Eastchester are collecting items for "birth kits" to help mothers around the world have safe deliveries of their babies.

Donations for birth kits may be brought to Tuckahoe Middle and High Schools in Eastchester for donation to the AFYA Foundation, which helps mothers safely deliver their babies.
Photo Credit: *AFYA Foundation at afyafoundation.org*

Donna Christopher

12/09/2015 4:40 p.m.

The items needed are baby blankets, baby beanie hats, soap and hand sanitizers.

The birth kits will be given to the AFYA organization, which aims to improve maternal and children's health by providing midwives, community health care workers, and physicians with the supplies they need to safely care for mothers and newborns.

The items may be placed in collection boxes at the schools,, 65 Siwanoy Blvd., Eastchester, until Dec. 21.

Click here to learn more about the AFYA Foundation.

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