Emergency Clothing
The Emergency Clothing Program provides limited emergency clothing for children in the child-welfare system. Funding provided by the child welfare system is almost never enough to clothe a child who has been taken out of his own home, for his protection. Voices for Kids attempts to fill this gap for children by providing emergency clothing so they can feel like other kids.
I hardly had any clothes to begin with. My mom was spending everything on drugs. Then, the police took us away in the middle of the night and put me in a Shelter. I refused to go to school because I had one shirt, one pair of socks, one pair of shoes, and one set of underwear. I needed to look like other kids. It was an emergency to me. My Guardian ad Litem immediately asked Voices for Kids for a gift card so I could go to a discount store and buy a few basic things—I was lucky. –Darryl, Age 12
What would you do if you were a child without clothes?
