Empowering Dignity Daily

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Essentials First (Formerly known as Kits for Peace) empowers dignity daily and strengthens community-wide wellness by providing equitable access to vital personal and household hygiene products, as well as food assistance.

Your gift of essential items to our most vulnerable neighbors helps them:

  • Stay healthy and strong
  • Reduce anxiety, depression and stress
  • Live with dignity and self-confidence
  • Feel less isolated

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Thriving Communities


SETTLING AFGHAN REFUGEES

We are working in partnership with MAPS-MCRC, SCM and others to support newly arriving Afghan families to ensure their hygiene and culturally acceptable food needs are met.
Our family has traveled halfway across the world so that our children have a chance to have a safe and happy childhood. Thank you for helping us, especially when we have nothing. It means a lot to us. -Gul, an Afghan refugee


In Partnership

We are collaborating with Helping Hands Food Bank of Skagit County for regular distribution of hygiene kits.
So many families are struggling financially during the pandemic. Ensuring that they have essential hygiene items to keep them healthy is an important part of my day. - Miranda, Program Manager


SUPPORTING BIPOC COMMUNITIES

We partnered with Black Coffee NW to deliver 1,500 personal hygiene kits and food vouchers to low income, black families with children.
I lost my job due to an opioid addiction after a physical injury and couldn't afford to buy shaving products. Now, I’m more confident going for job interviews and am working towards getting my life back on track - Danny, a father of four