Service Organiztion Looking for Some Good 'Stuff'
By Staff -- Gifts & Decorative Accessories, 4/14/2008 6:30:00 AM
Los Angeles -- Children in foster care will be getting some special attention next month: May is National Foster Care Month. And one organization in particular - My Stuff Bags Foundation - will be providing some major support for foster kids in Southern California.
The foundation, a national nonprofit organization that provides individual duffel bags filled with new belongings to abused, neglected and abandoned children entering foster care without possessions, will be participating with its annual Collectathon and Stuffathon for Southern California's foster children. The foundation has provided My Stuff Bags to tens of thousands of children in foster care across the nation.
To do this, the foundation conducts an annual Collectathon to gather new items and funding for the bags, and a Stuffathon to get them prepared and delivered.
"In order to meet our 6,000 bag goal, we are calling upon manufacturers, corporations, foundations and individuals to contribute funds to help us purchase the duffels and new children's items to help us fill them," says Janeen Holmes, president and CEO of My Stuff Bags. She adds, "We fill up each My Stuff Bag with toys, toiletries, a stuffed animal, clothing, a blanket and whatever great "stuff" gets donated."
My Stuff Bags was launched in 1998 to address some of the immediate physical and emotional needs of children who must be rescued from unfit homes. National Foster Care Month was established to bring about awareness of the plight of the more than 500,000 children in foster care in America.
For more information on My Stuff Bags, to make a cash or item donation, contact the foundation at 866-3MY-STUFF or visit www.mystuffbags.org.
