Students Start Fundraiser for Foster Kids

Sweet Cases, Duffel Bags for Kids in Foster Care

Leave it to middle school students to take hard lessons from human atrocities and turn it into pure compassion for kids in their own community.

Amanda Lindquist’s students at Superior Middle School are learning all about the horrors of the Holocaust in 1940s Europe, and the suffering of Africans in genocides that have ravaged that continent for decades.

This is tough material, but the students decided as a class that they were inspired to alleviate some of the suffering that may go on in their own county.

So Ms. Lindquist’s class held a brainstorming session and voted on a charity project.

And they decided on the non-profit Together We Rise, a company that makes Sweet Cases.

Sweet Cases are duffel bags filled with goodies for foster children.

“We voted for Sweet Cases, because we all thought it was super cool that we could personalize the bags,” says eighth grader Kaileigh Miller.

But it gets deeper than that.

Most children in the foster care system are just given trash bags to keep their personal belongings in as they move from home to home.

“I feel that kids need to know that they deserve more than just a trash bag,” said Niya Wilson, the student that contacted Fox 21 about this story.

So this is a fundraiser; these students have already reached about half their goal for $1,000.

That $1,000 would pay for about 40 Sweet Cases; if they reached $1,500 it would be about 60 cases, or one for each child in foster care in Douglas County.

“We’re the next generation, and we need to do something,” Wilson said.

“We want a better world for our kids to grow up in, and for us to learn in,” Milled added.

To make a donation, you can drop money off at Superior Middle School, with attention to Amanda Lindquist’s class.

Or you can donate on their webpage.