This spring, as part of the 22nd Annual Hunger Cleanup, students involved in the Maryland PIRG campus chapter at College Park helped to raise over $1000 to purchase beds for St. Ann's Infant and Maternity Home in Hyattsville, MD. Volunteers sold St. Patrick's Day-themed buttons and requested donations from family and friends to provide the Home with new beds for the older children living in their facilities.
About St. Ann's:
St. Ann's Infant and Maternity Home has provided a refuge for needy
women and children in the Washington, DC area since 1860 when three
Daughters of Charity, a religious community dedicated to helping those
who are poor established the city's first home for foundlings and
single women "at their time of confinement in childbirth". Since that
date 145 years ago, St. Ann's has been a pioneer in developing programs
to reach our city's most destitute women and children.
