Amenity Aid

Amenity Aid is Rhode Island’s only hygiene bank, providing essential hygiene products to those in need through our partnerships with 10 social service agencies around the state. We operate like a food bank, but for hygiene products that food banks typically don’t provide. An estimated 1 in 3 Rhode Island families struggle to afford hygiene products, and 2 in 5 menstruators struggle to purchase period products. There are no government assistance programs (SNAP, WIC, etc.) that address this widespread hygiene insecurity, and most social service agencies lack the funding and capacity to provide these products. We exist solely to provide desperately needed hygiene products in full and travel sizes to vulnerable populations throughout Rhode Island. This includes individuals of all ages who are unemployed, underemployed, unhoused, at-risk veterans, low-income, immigrants, refugees, and victims of violence and abuse via a network of partner agencies. Amenity Aid supplies products to partner social service agencies that serve these populations; those agencies, in turn, provide products directly to individuals in need.