Tuesday, August 14, 2012

We Made Our First Delivery!

(Written by the Mom.)

Thank you for all of the socks!   We've gotten four packages in the mail in the last few days, as well as another Pay Pal donation.

We delivered 277 pairs of socks, 21 pairs of underwear and various toiletries to Children's Home Society of Florida yesterday.  There were even some very special super hero socks sent from a trauma mom friend!  They will defiantly add some extra strength and power to a young lady's feet soon! 

The case workers were thrilled!  They said children often arrive at their group homes with no socks or underwear to wear to school the next day, so this is really filling a big need for them.

Here's what we delivered.  The local newspaper was on hand to document it and interview Princess LuLu, who was terrified at first, but soon warmed up.






I received the following email from Lindsay this morning, who was inspired by this project to collect socks at banks in Dallas, Texas.

I just wanted to let you know that so far I have been able to collect a little over 130 children's socks (as well as 30 children's gloves/mittens, underwear etc.) I will be picking up another 50-75 pairs of socks late next week and I have set up a time to meet with Paige from Community Partners of Dallas to donate everything. This is a pic of all the socks last week and I will take some pics of the facility that you can pass on to your daughter. Just to give you a little info on Community Partners of Dallas, they service over 9,000 children in the Dallas area who are coming from CPS and are in the process of being placed in the home. Paige was VERY appreciative for what you and your daughter are doing and said that socks were one of their biggest needs right now!

I will keep you posted :)

-Lindsay
 Thank you, Lindsay!  She sent this photo of some of the socks she's collected so far:


 School starts here on Monday.  My sweet girl is very proud that there will be a whole bunch of foster kids wearing brand new, colorful socks on their first day of school because of this project!  Thank you again for all of the support!

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