Fostering Hope

Today, I am writing about fostering hope. The reason for my selection is that May is National Foster Care month. This is a subject that esp. touches home with me and my family. Before we began our journey into the foster care system, I was truly naive. I had no clue of the amount of children who are actually in foster care, or what they go through. Now that we've been fostering for nearly 5 years, I feel like I understand a little more and sympathize a lot more.

Often times, these children have few possessions. They are often rushed out of one home and into the next without much thought or planning. Things get left behind. You may say, "Well, they're just things. They are replaceable." I ask you to consider how you'd feel if you had already been taken away from the only family you knew, and shoved into a home full of strangers. Well meaning or not, they are strangers to you. You grab your teddy bear and perhaps your favorite race car and that's all you have time to take. Then before you know it, two or three homes later, the race car and teddy are nowhere to be found.

There is an easy solution! Won't you help me, help these kids? I figure, if we can purchase enough zipper pouches, these children can have their own bag to store their things in. If they have to suddenly move, they just have to grab their bag and go.

I have created an event here:
Fostering Hope

I would ask two things of you; 1) Please share this post with your Facebook friends, your twitter pals and your local religious organizations and 2)Please consider purchasing a pouch or two.

Together, we can make a difference. We can help these children. One child at a time. It all starts with you!