Tampa Day School Students Help Moms

Tomorrow, the students at Tampa Day School will kick-off a national fundraising initiative to help some women in need.

For the next six weeks the students will collect comfort items for women during the Movers for Moms program in conjunction with Two Men and a Truck. All the items the school collects will go to those in need at the YWCA of Tampa Bay shelter.

Nationally, the Movers for Moms event resulted in the collection 20,000 items for women’s shelters across the Midwest last year.

At the kickoff event tomorrow, Two Men and a Truck will talk to the kids and challenge them to collect as many items as they can to fill their collection boxes.

Two Men and a Truck will donate large empty moving boxes for the students to fill at the school.  In May, the movers will come back, pick up the donations and drop them off at the women’s shelter before Mother's Day.

Needed items include: personal care items such as tooth paste, tooth brushes, soap, deodorant, shampoo and conditioner. Also, new clothing, purses, wallets, coin purses, makeup cases and baby care items.

Want to join the effort? You can drop off items off at the local Two Men and a Truck franchises in the Tampa-area:

• 11431 US Hwy 301 N., Thonotosassa, FL

• 5801 State Road 54, New Port Richey, FL

• 31027 US Hwy 19 North, Palm Harbor, FL