Lukas Dapkus, a rising senior at Ridgefield High School organized a toiletry drive on Saturday, June 27 at St. Mary School to benefit the Dorothy Day Hospitality House in Danbury. Ridgefield residents donated nearly 400 pounds of toiletry supplies, including soap, shampoo, razors and toothpaste. The collected supplies will be donated to the Dorothy Day Hospitality House.
St. Mary Parish is collecting personal hygiene supplies for the Dorothy Day Hospitality House on Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m.-noon, in the St. Mary School parking lot at 183 High Ridge Avenue in Ridgefield.
Following the coronavirus outbreak, the Dorothy Day House was forced to close, and the nearly 100 people per day that depend on the Dorothy Day House experienced shortages of hygiene supplies.