Jan. 1, 1970
Volunteers pack 300 ‘comfort cases’ for foster children in Eastern Carolina
Bringing foster kids in ENC essential items, that’s the goal of Pathway to Comfort, a partnership between the Blue Cross Blue Shield and an international non-profit organization.
On Thursday, dozens of volunteers came to the Pitt County Agricultural Center to fill 300 backpacks. Inside, foster kids around Eastern Carolina will find clothes, blankets, toiletries, and books.
Rob Scheer went through foster care as a child, and he founded Comfort Cases more than a decade ago.
The non-profit organization has given out almost 300,000 of these “Comfort Cases” to foster kids around the country since 2013.
“When children enter the system, the majority of kids are handed this, a trash bag, I know it firsthand. It was handed to me in the 70s, when I started to build our family, our children started to arrive from foster care, and each one carried a trash bag, a bag that had nothing but torn and tattered items.”
As people went down an assembly line of gifts, carefully placing each one in a backpack, one volunteer, Logan Albertson, spoke about the experience.
“I got a little teary-eyed hearing the experiences that those children go through is really disheartening, however, when you pack the bags and whenever you feel the emotion and the love in the room, the whole room is excited.”
The backpacks will be distributed to foster children across Eastern Carolina by the Department of Social Services.
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