Barrington students get $10K boost to help foster children

A group of teens who make gift bags for new foster children received a $10,000 donation from Barrington Children's Charities on Tuesday, according to the Daily Herald. The group of students is part of the organization Let It Be Us, a Barrington-based nonprofit which encourages adoptions from the Illinois foster care system.

The teens collect new school supplies and personal care items and pack them into duffle bags to give children entering foster care. They have given away over 700 bags so far this year. Elizabeth Felice, a Let It Be Us board member, said children enter foster care with no possessions.

"These supplies solve an immediate need for the children and the duffle bags allow them to move within the foster care system in a bag that allows them the dignity that they deserve," according to the Let It Be Us website.

The students personally deliver the bags of supplies, and foster children as far away as Springfield have received the bags.

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