Windham to Get a Free Sunscreen Dispenser

WINDHAM, NH - A school, a senior center, and a number of community park and rec departments around the Granite State will be receiving free sunscreen dispensers from the Melanoma Foundation of New England, a nonprofit that is working to reduce melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.

The effort is part of the org’s “Practice Safe Skin” campaign. More than 50 locations in 12 states are receiving 190 dispensers.

In New Hampshire, dispensers will be installed for the Amherst Parks and Recreation Department, Bow Parks and Recreation; the Hampton Recreation Department; Jaffrey Parks and Recreation; The Taylor Community in Laconia; Lebanon Recreation and Parks; Merrimack Parks and Recreation; New Durham Parks and Recreation; the Pembroke Recreation Department; Pembroke Academy; Waterville Valley Recreation Department; and the Windham Recreation Department, according to Deb Girard, the Executive Director of the MFNE.

“We are thrilled to expand on our highly successful pilot and offer sunscreen units for public and private distribution throughout the country,” Girard said. “We hope sunscreen dispensers will become as commonplace as hand sanitizers over the next few years.”

The org will install the dispensers this month. They will be equipped with 1000 mL bags of sunscreen (670 applications per bag). The sunscreen is “an all-natural blend of 6 percent zinc and 6 percent titanium SPF-30 sunscreen,” which the org says is safe for people aged 6-months and older.

For more information about the program or if your business or nonprofit interested in purchasing a sunscreen dispenser, visit mfne.org/practice-safe-skin/or call 800-557-6352.