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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Hundreds of youths successful Fresno County and Madera County's foster attraction strategy transportation their belongings successful trash bags, but a caller donation is hoping to bring them a consciousness of dignity erstwhile they request it most.
On Thursday, implicit 100 luxury suitcases were donated to foster youths successful need, acknowledgment to D'Ambrosio Trading. Wilma Tom Hashimoto with Court Appointed Special Advocates [CASA] says the suitcases volition fulfill an unluckily prevalent need.
According to Hashimoto, erstwhile children and teenagers participate the foster attraction strategy they are abruptly removed from everything they know. The astir 2000 children and youths CASA works with are "the astir astatine risk." That includes those who person nary different household to spell to, those who person peculiar needs, and those who person survived superior maltreatment and neglect.
Hashimoto says erstwhile foster youths person to enactment each the belongings they person into trash bags to determination to a caller home, it is an unnecessary insult.
"Don't enactment it successful a trash container due to the fact that it's not trash," Hashimoto said. "You don't driblet a belonging that you treasure that's truthful beloved to your bosom successful a garbage."
President and co-owner of D'Ambrosio Trading, Jene D'Ambrosio, says her institution was fixed 125 suitcases deemed unusable. She was asked if she could recycle them.
"They're beauteous suitcases," D'Ambrosio said. "We decided alternatively than recycle them, [to] reuse them."
D'Ambrosio says that her institution works with organizations similar CASA, and that's erstwhile Hashimoto came to mind. D'Ambrosio had antecedently learned astir the foster youths utilizing trash bags for suitcases and knew what to bash with the suitcases.
"What would that beryllium similar if [my daughters oregon my grandson] had to acceptable everything they owned successful a trash bag?" D'Ambrosio said. "I had a precise dense bosom knowing that determination was specified a large request for this."
D'Ambrosio and Hashimoto worked to docket a donation drop-off astatine the Fresno Rescue Mission City Center, which took spot Thursday.
The suitcases volition beryllium shared with aggregate agencies that run wrong the City Center and work children, youth, and families successful hopeless need. Hashimoto believes that's conscionable the beginning.
"These children and families person been blessed, and this is the spot wherever we privation to get them up and going and independent," Hashimoto said. "They're going to retrieve the kindness that that the assemblage has shown them, and they'll wage it forward."
