Bag Drive 2024: Wowza!
We won’t lie to you, friends, but when we kicked off our 2024 Bag Drive in May, we were nervous. Nervous that halfway through the month, our collected numbers were less than we had anticipated. However, we held our heads high, agreed that any amount of bags is better than no bags and promised not to let our worries get the better of us as we know this community has shown up for us time and time before, so why should we lose belief in them now?
Then the emails and packages came in like a flood. Before too long, we were picking up transit vans full of bags every week from our locations and our numbers were rapidly rising from 200 to 800 to 1,300 before our final tally of 1,570 - our BIGGEST collection so far!
With your help, EmberHope received the ability to give bags (and a solid sense of dignity) to over 1,500 foster children!
Words cannot adequately express the impact these will make on the youth receiving the bags. With over 6,000 children in our foster care system, community involvement means more now than it ever has before. Since starting our Bag Drive, we’ve been able to give back over 3,800 bags to children that might have otherwise use a trash bag to carry their precious belongings in.
Trash bags are not for children, and certainly should not be the carrying case for all that they hold dear: special photos, important stuffed animals, favorite articles of clothing, and more. Without your help, this level of impact would not have been possible.
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