PARSIPPANY — Angela Debrot, Community Director of the New Jersey Chapter of the March of Dimes, is shown with President Mimi Letts at a recent meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany presenting a plaque to thank the Club for its active participation in the March for Babies.
The New Jersey Chapter held its annual March for Babies fundraiser this past April in Florham Park. The Kiwanis Club has been an active supporter of the March, not only with financial contributions, but with volunteer staffing service since the Kiwanis Club was founded nearly 25 years ago.
The March of Dimes mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. The foundation, headquartered in White Plains, NY, has 51 chapters across the U.S., including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The March of Dimes provides mothers, pregnant women and women of childbearing age with educational resources on baby health, pregnancy, preconception and new motherhood, as well as supplying information and support to families affected by prematurity, birth defects, or other infant health problems.
The March of Dimes, founded in 1938 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had fighting polio as its original mission.
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