Have you ever moved? It can be exciting, but it can also be sort of a pain and sometimes, it can be sad too. Leaving a school and friends, not to mention your home, can be hard, even if you've got the support of your family.
But what if you had to move all the time? And each time you moved, you left behind a family?
That's something that happens to kids in the foster system all the time. According to DoSomething.org, "the 500,000 foster kids in the US will move homes an average of three times before age 18." And more often than not, the stuff a kid has at one home is moved to another in a plastic garbage bag.
Talk about adding insult to injury.
But there's the start of a solution in the works.
DoSomething and Together We Rise, an organization dedicated
to supporting foster kids, is petitioning the Connecticut Department of
Children and Families to adopt a policy of providing kids who enter the foster
system with a suitcase or duffel bag to carry their things – instead of the
current default of a garbage bag.
Because Connecticut has one of the better
foster care systems in the country, the hope is that their policy will soon be
adopted by other states.
If they get the 10,000 signatures they’re looking for, the
groups will deliver their petition to the head of DCF there.
What’s even
better, if the state adopts the policy, Together We Rise will provide the bags.
Everyone wins, particularly the kid’s whose lives are a just a little bit
better because their belongings aren't relegated to garbage.
To put your name on the petition – the only thing you have
to do – click here. You can also learn more about the project and read about
the foster care system from a kid who’s been there.
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