May 21st, 2012
Kids Work to Donate to Other Kids
There have been many programs created in the last several years to assist kids who are otherwise not able to have all of the items they need to go to school and be productive and when a child is put into foster care, the problems can seem to increase exponentially simply because children are often taken from their homes in the dead of night and aren’t otherwise able to figure out how they might be able to operate without their clothing, possessions and even pictures of their family which must usually be left behind when a child is woken up in the middle of the night to be taken away from everything they know.
A group of students who is aware of the problems that foster kids and poor children have has started to collect things like childrens luggage and used suitcases for other children who are currently in the foster care system and often have nothing but a trash bag in which to carry around their few possessions. The students at the school who are collecting such items for donations have been made aware that they are quite lucky in their circumstances as they are in gifted classes and are able to attend a school without having to worry about whether they will have a home when they return from school in the afternoon.
The students also added letters of encouragement to the less fortunate kids who would be benefiting from the donations as a way to let those kids know that they aren’t alone and that they too have people who care about them.