Restock: January 2025

Welcome to the Restock!

Updates and Changes

Well, it has been a Month, nationally as well as for LFFC. I won’t belabor the national issues, other than to point out that the tariffs will be pretty devastating to our COGGA for things—most of the textiles we distribute, for instance, come from Pakistan. It is of course very easy to find reasons to quit this work; I have thus far been successful in finding reasons to continue, as well. For instance, this month someone told me about the first opioid overdose reversal they made using naloxone from LFFC, which was incredible. (And which owes infinitely more to their skill in CPR than to us, of course.)

We managed to blow through the entire (warm) glove and hat repository this month; a larger restock has been ordered, and will arrive next week or so. Who knew logistics was a difficult discipline?

We’ve also now distributed all of the lead tests provided by the UW LilLabs project. We’ve been proud to be part of the launch class of LilLabs; it has been wonderful to work with UW and to see all the other people around the world trying to put scientific information and tooling in the hands of people who need it. A new cohort will launch soon; keep an eye on their Join page to stay informed!

It has also become clear that despite my waterproofing attempts, water has infiltrated the walls of the cabinets; while they have pretty veneers, they’re just particleboard underneath. So they’re doomed. This summer I’ll get the chance to build the cabinets again, this time from scratch and with more attention given to water protection! (Don’t worry, the posts are cedar in concrete, and the roof has shingles, so all of that will abide without issue; it’s just the cabinets.)

Monthly Usage

This month, we had 25 outgoing completed calls made from the Futel phone! (This data is kindly provided by Futel itself; I set up a system to collect a count of completed calls, but didn’t complete the visualization layer. I’m delighted that they have the data for all their phones!)

This month, we distributed:

• 237 pairs of thermal socks
• 165 pairs of thermal gloves
• 171 warm hats
• 960 Band-Aids
• 45 CoBan rolls
• 52 gauze pads
• 462 nitrile gloves
• 154 masks (N95 and KF94)
• 110 doses of ibuprofen
• 54 pairs of earplugs
• 279 pairs of handwarmers
• 96 ponchos
• 53 pencils
• 74 bars of soap
• 118 toothbrushes
• 93 tubes of toothpaste
• 156 tampons
• 75 menstrual pads (across all sizes)
• 128 condoms, and 144 lubricant packets
• 55 lead tests (10 object, 45 soil)
• 26 boxes (52 doses) of naloxone–and one confirmed overdose reversal from naloxone picked up at LFFC, which was wonderful to hear about.

Our COGGA for this month is $1294.66, not including naloxone, condoms, lubricants, or lead tests (all of which are provided by outside groups at no cost to us).

We received two donations this month from Harley LaRoux and Andrew Smart. Thank you so much for your generosity!

Conclusion

That’s it for this month’s Restock! If there’s more information you’d like to know, please feel free to use our Suggestions Form or email us at info@lffc.us.