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When I was thirteen years old my family was given our first placement, my little sister.
Fast forwards 4 years and she is now adopted into our family and I couldn't imagine life without her.
But still, when we first got her we had an issue: We didn't have clothes for her.
"we make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give"
-Winston Churchill
You see, our family had initially requested a 13 year old boy, as that's what we had clothes for at the time.
But, my sister needed immediate placement. So Baltimore County contacted us and asked a question:
Can you take In this child?
Unfortunately, some families have to answer that question with a no, and and the child ends up staying in a police station for the night. Lack of proper clothing is the given reason half the time a placement is denied.
Clothes cost a lot of money, money that most families don't just have lying around. Since most kids come into the foster care system with almost nothing, it's almost guaranteed the new foster family is going to need to have clothes for the child.
In addition to the cost, foster families aren't given much time to prepare for their new child, only knowing about the placement usually a day or less in advance. Definitely not enough time to collect all of the clothes needed through peer support and the community.
So, me and my friends started thinking:
So, me and my friends started thinking:
Kids grow out of clothes all the time. After families are done with their kids clothes, they usually wind up in the trash, straight to a landfill. But there is nothing wrong with these second hand clothes, infact, that small children's shirt being thrown out may just be the perfect fit for a new foster child that a family is currently scrambling to get clothes for! We came up with a plan:
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