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.

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.

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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.

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Programs, Bags

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Working with Beech Brook in foster care, I have seen the positive impacts of being able to give a journey bag to each child when they come into care. Fostering Hope provides not only necessities for the children with age-appropriate journey bags, but also hand-picked birthday presents for each child!

Programs, Bags

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Programs, Bags

With my first fostering experience, I had 2 boys arrive with a few grocery bags of items. The Journey Bags provided so many necessities and reinforced they are not alone in this phase of their life and others care about them.

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