Empowering New Beginnings
When children need to be removed from their homes, they often carry their belongings in garbage bags. To support them during this difficult transition, we partner with agencies to provide duffel bags full of hygiene essentials and age-appropriate comfort items.
Help a Child Start Their Journey with Dignity
Every day, children in transition face uncertainty and hardship, often leaving their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs. A Journey Bag offers more than just essentials—it provides comfort, dignity, and hope during an incredibly challenging time.
For just $100, you can sponsor a Journey Bag filled with:
🧸 A cozy blanket for warmth and security
📚 Age-appropriate books to inspire and educate
🪥 Hygiene essentials to restore dignity
🎒 A sturdy bag to carry their belongings and sense of worth
Your donation does more than provide items—it shows a child they are not alone and that someone cares deeply about their journey. Together, we can turn moments of fear into opportunities for resilience and hope.
Make a Difference Today.
Click below to sponsor a Journey Bag and help transform a child’s transition into a step toward a brighter future.
Sponsor a Bag
By designating your donation, 100% of your contribution will be used to build a journey bag for a child transitioning into foster care or residential care. Our 2025 goal is to secure 100 donor designated bags by June 30th. Click below to help us reach our goal!
Fill A Bag/or Pick one item for multiple Bags
If you enjoy picking out the items that will fill a child’s bag, visit our Amazon registry and select an infant, young child, or teen journey bag, and you can fill the bag, or you can choose to purchase multiples of one or two items to help us fill multiple bags throughout the year. Please note that there are a few items that go into the bags that are not available on the registry and will be filled after they arrive at our warehouse.
More than just a Duffel bag
Not only do the Journey Bags provide immense purpose for youth in foster care, but they also support the livelihoods of women who were freed from human trafficking. In partnership with the Aruna Project we are able to provide quality, handmade duffel bags while supporting the employment, housing, and overall care of women who were victims of sex trafficking.
How to Help
Fostering Hope relies on physical donations to meet the immediate needs of youth in foster care.
Make a direct impact in the life of a foster child in Northeast Ohio by shopping our Amazon Wishlist. Your contributions will help fill Journey Bags with necessary supplies and provide gift cards for memorable birthday celebrations.
