00:00 I'm here this morning at Greenland Community Centre to launch the Home Start first baby bank in
00:06 Lahore. Absolutely fantastic and whilst it gets all the organisation support it wouldn't happen
00:12 without all the volunteers and it's absolutely fantastic that it's here and I'm so proud of
00:17 everybody involved and it will be a roaring success and much much needed in today's cost
00:22 of living crisis. So well done everybody, so proud of you all. So Eileen can you tell me a wee bit
00:28 about the baby bank service and what it provides for local families? Yeah we launched a baby bank
00:35 today and that's the formal launch but we have been running since December and what we do is we
00:40 provide essentials and clothes and essential items for children up to three. Now we start it up to
00:49 three because we kind of decided that we would need to walk the floor before we can run and we
00:54 wanted to start something manageable and as you can see from here like we have up to three here
00:59 and we're like really bummed out really with items. Okay Gillian can you tell me how people
01:10 would seek a referral to the baby bank? Well there are several ways you can get a referral. You can
01:16 go onto the Home Security Centre website, there's a link to the baby bank and there's an online form
01:23 there so there are, you can phone the office and speak to somebody in the office in Carrick, Fergus
01:29 or we both have mobile numbers that you can phone and we can talk you through actually putting the
01:35 information into the online form. It's dead simple and it's two minutes, it doesn't take long
01:44 and then it comes through to us so it does and we make up the pack so we do.
01:50 So Gillian do you want to tell me as well just about some of the essential items that would be
01:54 in the packs that the baby bank would make up? So on the board here we have written out in case
02:00 Eddie and I aren't available that somebody else can make up the packs so we would have an essential
02:05 pack that would be toiletries, nappies, so they've got wipes, baby baths, shampoo, cotton buds,
02:12 those sorts of things in it and then there would be a clothing pack that we would make up and it
02:17 would be whatever age the child is that they're requesting for. We make up vests, baby clothes,
02:26 couple of outfits, coats, blankets, bibs, you name it we put it in if we've got it we put it into the
02:33 packs.
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