There are more than 5,000 children in Virginia’s foster care system, and many of them carry their belongings in trash bags.
Volunteers and regional programs have joined forces to pack backpacks full of essential items for children in foster care. The initiative, called Comfort Cases, aims to provide kids with basic necessities and a reminder that someone cares.
Rob Scheer, founder of Comfort Cases, shared the inspiration behind the nonprofit. “My husband and I have adopted five kids out of foster care… all of them arrived with something that people don’t realize kids in foster care have and that’s a trash bag.”…