backpacks4aussiekids.org.au

This is just fanastic. backpacks4aussiekids.org is a charity set up to provide foster kids with backpacks full of useful and fun bits and pieces to help with their often unsettled life. These kids so often slip under the radar. I'm so excited to see something constructive and compassionate being done about it!

These are the items most needed right now:

• Clothes for sizes 5 and up for boys and girls. Pre loved is welcomed
  


• Underpants (new please) sizes 3 and up, boys and girls
  


• Nappies, from newborn to age 2
  


• Torches
  


• Dummies, for new born up to 3 years
  


• Baby wipes

Here's why they ask for torches:

"Just imagine - You have been taken from your home, possibly out of your bed or under other highly stressful circumstances. You have been taken to a strangers house by police or DOCS workers (strangers to you) and left there, in an unfamiliar environment - on your own.

Now the nice lady they left you with tucks you up in bed, tells you everything will be o.k. and smiles as she turns out the light and closes the door.

How do you feel? It's dark, all the noises and shadows are different but the light switch is too far away and up too high for you to reach. You pull the covers up close and wish that the morning would come . . .

I was afaid of the dark as a kid, and I had a loving home with a happy family. Still the dark, the fear of the unknown was there. What about you?

My hope is to give these kids a little bit of security during the night by providing them with a light source they can control."

How beautiful and caring is that.

If you'd like to be involved, you can help out by donating money or goods. You can make up complete backpacks (there is a list of items need for each pack) or send goods as per the need.

Please do your bit to support this wonderful cause - every little bit helps! Even if you can't give a large donation, how about buying a pack of dummies or wipes everytime you go grocery shopping. Within a month or so you'll have a nice little bundle of things to send off!