Help Foster Youth

When Rob Scheer entered the foster care system, he walked into a house full of strangers carrying all his belongings in a tattered trash bag. Thirty-two years
later, four foster children arrived on his own doorstep clutching garbage bags holding all their belongings. Rob couldn’t believe that after thirty years, foster kids were still carrying their lives in trash bags. To remedy the situation, he founded Comfort Cases. The nonprofit supplies foster youths in the U.S. and the U.K. with duffel bags and backpacks containing comfort and personal-care items. A $10 donation (£20 in the U.K.) to Comfort Cases pays for one of the duffel bags. Donors can fund backpacks and the items that are packed in them
through the nonprofit’s website. (By the way, those four kids are now Rob’s adopted kids.) You can check out Comfort Cases U.S. as well as Comfort Cases U.K.

Danielle Gletow started One Simple Wish after she and her husband became foster parents and realized that many children in foster care didn’t have access to things other kids might take for granted, like birthday and holiday gifts, sneakers and school supplies. Donors can browse and fulfill wishes for these items. Wishes are compiled by social workers and other professionals who work with the children. One Simple Wish reaches more than thirty thousand children each year. You can fulfill a wish through the website or contribute toward a wish with a donation as low as $1 through the Facebook page. www.onesimplewish.org