FOSTER KIDS CHARITY
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Mission Statement
Foster Kids Charity is a non profit organization (501c3) with the mission to provide the basic needs of foster children while in foster care. We provide shelter (group home for 13 teens), Food (Food program delivering one healthy meal per day) clothing (Give away day is held monthly for our children) & other items the children need while in care. We work with Child Protective and other welfare agencies and served 35,000 children to date in Dallas (80% of our work) and across Texas.
About This Cause
The vision of Foster Kids Charity Inc. is to improve the well-being of children while in foster care .Our mission is to strive to make sure that abused & foster children in the Texas foster care system has their basic food, clothing and personal hygiene needs met. This is accomplished by providing abused and foster children in the Texas with these basic items. Foster Kids Charity serves children in Dallas, Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur since 2011. Our charity is set to open an office in Galveston on January 2015 – serving abused and foster children in your area. Established in 2010 by Michelle Armour, Foster Kids Charity employs a staff of one and racially and culturally diverse volunteers of 10-15 volunteers who help prepare emergency care packages on a monthly basis. The Board of Directors is a diverse group of individuals who are from the business, health care and financial management communities. To Date, Foster Kids Charity serves more than 25,000 children with care bags, food and donations of clothing, shoes, books, toys, pj, socks and other items, via child protective services. This was made possible by tremendous respond from the community toward our program as well as ongoing products and funds contributed to our charity by its supporters. On October 17, 2013 Foster Kids Charity won an award of excellence in community service, by Greater Texas Community Partners. On March 2015 Foster Kids Charity was recognized in The Texas Capitol in Austin by Representative Jason Valeba. It is our goal to continue and provide support to foster children in need. our most current and ongoing program is our food program: Food 4 Foster Kids Program In an effort to help with child hunger & Obesity of abused, neglected and foster children, Foster Kids Charity launches a new program distributing nutritious food bags that have cereals, dry & fresh fruits, healthy snacks & educational materials to foster children serviced in CPS offices in DFW & Beaumont area. These food bags would provide Supplemental Nutrition bags with educational materials to: • Feed abused & neglected children in CPS offices • Feed Children in CPS while parents are under investigation • Feed CPS social worker while transporting Children to court • Feed CPS social worker while transporting children to shelter we always need food donations or funds to continue this program.