Comfort a Child Dayton
More Than Just a Duffel Bag
For Love of Children provides a brand new duffle bag to children in the foster care system that often carry their belongings in a trash bag. With your donation you provide a comfort to the many children in the Montgomery County Child Services Program.
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.
What is Comfort a Child Dayton?
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.
We want to make a new statement.
Foster Children in Dayton
Like many foster programs across Ohio, the foster program in Dayton doesn’t quite have the funds to give a bag to even a birthday wish to every child. That is why we need to stand up and help these children get the small things that we often take for granted. 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.
Your Donation Helps a Dayton 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.