Comfort a Child
What is Comfort a Child?
Through our Comfort a Child program, our volunteers provide brand new duffle bags to children in the foster care system. Each duffle bag is filled with age appropriate toys, blankets, crayons, fun activities to take part in while adjusting to new surroundings.
It is the mission of FLOC to make every child feel wanted and important. Having a safe space to hold their treasured belongings is just one step in bringing a better life to foster children across the Dayton area.
More Than Just a Duffle Bag
Imagine you’ve just been told that it’s time to leave your home. You know it’s not safe where you are, but it’s your home. It’s where all of your belongings are, where you’ve made memories, and the only place you’ve had thus far that’s indistinguishably yours. You’re given five minutes and a plastic garbage bag to gather everything that holds any semblance of value to you, then shepherded out the doors of your home and into an unfamiliar place.
This story is, more times than not, the story repeated by many children that have found themselves entering the foster care system.
Through our Blessings in a Bag program we aim to supply each child with a strong, sturdy duffle bag to transport everything they hold dear. Something resistant to wear that would protect its contents in a way a garbage bag never could. It’s a loud, screaming statement that a child is told to put their belongings into a garbage bag as the precursor to what will likely be a tough road ahead.
Giving a child a duffle bag gives them a sense of worth. Something that they can hold on to and count on to be with them no matter where they end up.
Help Support Comfort A Child
When you give a donation to FLOC, For Love of Children you are giving to the future of the Dayton community.
When you donate to FLOC you are providing children with a duffle bag that will stay with them on their individual journey. You let the youngest generation of Daytonians know that we care about them and that they are not alone through one of the roughest periods of their life.