Everyone needs a good piece of luggage, especially children in foster care.
Evan Edwards, a 12-year-old St. Agatha Academy student, recently decided to collect suitcases or duffle bags for foster children, rather than gifts, for his birthday.
“Did you know kids move an average of seven times while they are in foster care?” he asked in a video on social media. “Most kids don’t have a bag so they’re asked to put their belongings in a trash bag. How do you think that makes them feel, putting their belongings in a trash bag?”
After a month of promotion, Edwards and his mother Krystena Edwards collected 55 bags in the last week for foster children in Kenutcky.
“I have friends and family who do foster,” she said. “That’s how we know so much about it.”
When Evan’s birthday rolled around earlier this month, there wasn’t much else going on and Evan didn’t have anything specific that he wanted, she said.
“There’s not been a lot going on this summer,” She said. “We couldn’t have a party and Evan didn’t want anything specific, so we thought this would be a good way to go.”
They planned to accept the donations on June 20, but some shipped the bags early, and others came in after the fact. The donations were pretty evenly split between suitcases and duffle bags, she said, and many of them were brand new.
The Edwardses connected with Don Pratt, a Lexington resident and former foster parent, who has been collecting luggage for foster children for about 20 years.
Pratt came to their on Wednesday and stuffed the 53 bags collected at that point into his Toyota Prius, she said.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” she said.
The need for suitcases doesn’t end.
“There are a lot more kids in foster case than there are suitcases,” she said.
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Fred Petke is a reporter for The Winchester Sun. His beats include cops, courts, fire, public records, city and county government and other news. To contact Fred, email fred.petke@winchestersun.com or call 859-759-0051.
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