
Hoda Emam
Multimedia Journalist, Producer, Storyteller at Freelance
Producer at The Story Collider
Producer, Documentary Filmmaker @Reuters alum, @columbiajourn | Texas is home.
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Jul 14, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Hoda Emam
On a sweltering afternoon in June, Angelia Victorian waited in the parking lot of a Head Start preschool in Fremont, California, with precious cargo in the trunk of her car — a box of Size 3 diapers. Victorian, a social worker for the Alameda County Health Department for the last 16 years, was waiting to meet a young mother of two to hand her the diapers and check on the family’s well-being.
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Jul 13, 2024 |
msn.com | Hoda Emam
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Jul 13, 2024 |
newsbreak.com | Hoda Emam
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Mar 7, 2024 |
chicago.suntimes.com | Hoda Emam
Adwoa Sarkodie has not been able to work since 2020 when she tested positive for COVID-19 while working full time as a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home. Now suffering from long COVID, she has been unable to work and has — like thousands of others in Illinois — relied on food pantries to feed her boys, ages 9 and 10. “If the kids are hungry, they can’t do their homework.
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Mar 5, 2024 |
chicago.suntimes.com | Hoda Emam
Adwoa Sarkodie has not been able to work since 2020 when she tested positive for COVID-19 while working full time as a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home. Now suffering from long COVID, she has been unable to work and has — like thousands of others in Illinois — relied on food pantries to feed her boys, ages 9 and 10. “If the kids are hungry, they can’t do their homework.
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BREAKING: U.S. regulators ban the dye called Red 3 from the food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk. https://t.co/rK8rBZtjRS

In my latest report, I spoke with advocates, parents and lawmakers to see what states are doing to tackle America's growing diaper need. Social workers in California say parents have three major pressures: “Housing, food and diapers, in that order."

Nearly 50% of Americans with young children cannot afford the diapers their children need, according to the National Diaper Bank Network. About 25% of them have missed work because they didn't have enough extra diapers to give childcare facilities. https://t.co/aHKVJi0ZQp