PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN ANNOUNCES NEW BABY BOX FUND
For Immediate Release: January 16, 2024
Pro-Life Wisconsin is pleased to announce the creation of a new fund to help save lives in Wisconsin. The Baby Box Fund is now available when you donate to Pro-Life Wisconsin ETF online, by phone, and by mail.
This fund has been created to allow Pro-Life Wisconsin donors to take advantage of the state’s new law allowing the construction of baby boxes, 2023 Act 79, and to help us support communities that are installing and maintaining baby boxes. Gifts made to Pro-Life Wisconsin’s Baby Box Fund will be distributed as the need arises to help communities with the cost of installing and maintaining their own baby box(es).
Baby boxes are devices built into the wall of a hospital, fire station, or police station that are temperature controlled and ventilated, and have an alarm system alerting those inside that an infant (aged 72 hours or younger) has been relinquished. Furthermore, the boxes contain a surveillance system that allows 24/7 monitoring by the medical professionals and first responders at the baby boxes’ location.
As of right now, at least one Wisconsin community that we know of is working towards getting their own baby box! In Elkhorn, WI, a group of dedicated men and women are working to seek approval by their city for the construction of a Safe Haven Baby Box, and Pro-Life Wisconsin is committed to helping them financially. When you donate to Pro-Life Wisconsin’s Baby Box Fund, you ensure that communities like Elkhorn are assisted with the funds they need for these life-saving devices (which cost approximately $16,000 and require contract work (electricians, stone masons, etc. to install and maintain).
To view our new fund on our giving page, click here.
CONTACT:
Teresa Wolfe, PLW Development Director
P: 414-236-9721 (Cell)
E: [email protected]