VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – While kids are enjoying their summer vacation, the needs for foster kids are on the rise.
Connect With A Wish is a Virginia Beach nonprofit that enhances the lives of young children and adults in the community. It said the summer can be hard for them to find a place to go if they can’t work, and camps can be costly. That’s where it comes in to raise money to help.
“We want them to keep stability in the summertime,” said Lauren Tremper with Connect with a Wish. “And so often with school stopping and open endless days, stability is hard to come by for all of our families, but especially kids in foster care. And we don’t ever want lack of child care or lack of summer opportunities to be a reason that a foster parent says, ‘No, I can’t do this right now.’”…