Teen sets goal to donate 1,000 bags for foster care kids in May, National Foster Care Month.
A high school senior in Texas has set a goal of collecting 1,000 bags to be donated to kids in foster care in the month of May, National Foster Care Month, so kids do not have to carry their belongings in garbage bags.
When Beaton got older he made good on his pledge by using his Boy Scouts’ Eagle Scout project to donate 100 bags to kids in foster care through a local nonprofit organization. “You’re going into a new place, you don’t know these people and you’re going to be living with them and you’re coming in with a trash bag containing maybe one pair of shoes and some clothes and maybe a trinket if you’re a young kid or a phone if you’re older,” Beaton said. “My belongings don’t matter is what it’s telling people.”
"The bags were a big deal for us," said Allen, who said the practice of using trash bags in Texas was because of a sense of immediacy and lack of supplies."When we got the bags we started thinking outside of the box. Now we have campaigns to fill the bags and it's been a snowball effect." "The bags make the kids feel as normal as possible. Trash bags were the opposite of normal," Allen said."Hunter gave us the vision of what it was like firsthand in these homes, the kids' fears."
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