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Enid News & Eagle

CDSA, United Way distribute supplies

to NW Oklahoma day care centers
By James Neal expect the day care centers will
Staff Writer CDSA still is have a surge in demand.”
looking for Of the 268 day cares in the
Community Development Sup- donations region, Kelly said 123 providers
port Association held a cleaning of gloves, dis- requested help with items like
supply distribution event Friday, disinfectant solution, hand and
part of an effort to get donated infectant spray, laundry soap and gloves.
cleaning supplies to day care cen- masks and CDSA was able to gather
ters across Northwest Oklahoma. hand sanitizer. supplies for all 123 providers,
Kim Kelly, Northwest Child Kelly said, thanks to donations
Care Resource & Referral manager collected by United Way of Enid
at CDSA, said she and her staff have been & Northwest Oklahoma, provided by Mid-
busy throughout the pandemic, contacting all Continent Packaging of Enid and Home
268 Northwest Oklahoma child care facili- Maid Better of Oklahoma City.
ties each week to assess needs. United Way CEO and Executive Director
Kelly said cleaning supplies have been a Dan Schiedel said the United Way “has been
growing need for day care staff, as supplies trying to assess all the different nonprofits
in some areas have dwindled, due to the and organizations in our community to see
need to sanitize surfaces more thoroughly what the needs are, and sanitizing products
and more frequently to prevent spread of the is one of the hardest ones.”
coronavirus. Schiedel said he and his staff were hav-
“We just want to make sure everyone ing a hard time finding sanitizer and soap
Stephanie Gray and Kim Kelly, from CDSA, load boxes of cleaning supplies Friday to be delivered to day cares in has what they need,” Kelly said, “and now
Northwest Oklahoma. (Billy Hefton / Enid News & Eagle) that things are starting to open back up, we See DISTRIBUTE SUPPLIES, Page A3

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and because of that we were
able to work with all our part-
ner agencies with what they
donated.”
Schiedel said Mid-
Continent provided a pallet
each of hand soap and deter-
gent, which CDSA was busy
distributing to day care centers
Friday.
Dan Smith, owner of Home
Maid Better, said his compa-
ny’s involvement in the supply
distribution started with what
was intended to be a small
community distribution of dis-
infectant in Oklahoma City.
“We thought it was going
to be a small event and we had
a crazy turnout — it just blew
up,” Smith said. “We started
that event to give and we gave
a lot.”
He said an estimated 750-
1,000 cars came through that
first disinfectant distribution.
Not long after, he was con-
tacted by Rainbow Fleet Child
Care Resource & Referral of
Oklahoma City, asking for dis-
infectant to help supply child
care centers.
Smith donated 150 gallons
of disinfectant, which he said
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Rainbow Fleet distributed to
other child care resource and
referral agencies around the
state, including CDSA.
As Friday’s event was
winding down, Smith said he
was coordinating the logistics
to donate another 275 gallons
of disinfectant to the project.
“What started as a commu-
nity event has turned into a lot
of child care facilities across
the state being able to clean
appropriately with a COVID-
19 approved disinfectant,”
Smith said.
Kelly said CDSA still is
working to meet all the needs
of day care centers, and is look-
ing for donations of gloves,
disinfectant spray, masks and
hand sanitizer.
Oklahoma Department
of Human Services will be
helping CDSA distribute
supplies to day care centers
in Alfalfa, Beaver, Canadian,
Kingfisher, Texas, Woods
and Woodward counties
again on Monday. Northwest
Child Care Resource &
Referral staff will also be
delivering supplies in Blaine,
Major and Garfield counties
on Monday.
If any day care centers
in Northwest Oklahoma are
in need of assistance with
cleaning supplies, they can
contact Northwest Child
Care Resource & Referral
at (580) 234-3552 or (580)
242-6131.