Our Friends Closet – Page 3 – Community non-profit providing personal hygiene items to students in need

Providing Personal Hygiene Items To Students In Need

Our Friends Closet is a non profit that provides much needed items to homeless and low income students in our community including individually wrapped snacks as well as food and meals for those students that do not have food available to them after school, weekends, and during school breaks. We also provide personal hygiene products and other dignity items to students in need. Tina and Wendy have been friends for 30 years and together we started this non profit to help students in our community. Our Friends Closet provides free hygiene and basic need items to homeless, low income and/or unaccompanied students. Our first delivery...

How You Can Help School Students In Need

Each day, hundreds of students classified as homeless head to classrooms throughout our nation. They might be kids in shelters, sleeping in motels or staying at someone else's house. Many more cannot afford the things other students might take for granted; per...

Our Friends Closet Drop-Off Locations

Our Friend’s Closet has numerous convenient locations for you to drop off items for disadvantaged students and will be adding more soon. We would like to thank the following organizations for volunteering as drop-off locations. If your business or organization...

Winn Dixie Community Bag Program

Posted on September 29, 2020 by OFC Web Team

We are so excited to share that Our Friends Closet has been selected to be a part of the Community Bag Program, which is designed to make it easy for customers to contribute to their local community while supporting the environment. For the month of October, each time a $2.50 reusable Community Bag is purchased at the Winn Dixie on Ponchartrain Drive in Slidell, $1 will be donated to Our Friends ...
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Graduation Amid Covid-19

Posted on April 6, 2020 by OFC Web Team

Graduation might have been cancelled, but these hard working seniors are still on our minds and in our hearts. Some students, due to their personal situation will not receive graduation cards or gifts. These students worked hard through some difficult personal situations while staying focused on graduating. Again this year, we are putting together a little something for these students to show th...
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Liberty Self Storage Comes Through Again!

Posted on February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 by OFC Web Team

Our Friend's Closet would like to thank Liberty Self Storage for stepping up and donating much needed storage space again for another year! This is a major help to us! Thank you again Liberty!
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Thank You! Adopt a Student Christmas 2019

Posted on December 27, 2019 by OFC Web Team

We want to take this time to say THANK YOU to each and every one of you that adopted a student / students this Christmas or financially supported our cause. You opened your hearts to show kindness to these students and it means as much to us as it does to them. We have received some thank you notes already and have forwarded to the family that adopted the student and will continue to do so as we ...
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