Together We Rise
Foundation For Foster Kids
How Together We Rise All Started
What Together We Rise Is All About
Fundraisers
- Together We Rise has Sweet Cases that are for foster kids and foster kids don’t get a lot of personal items. They have to leave from home to home with what they can fit in two trash bags and no one deserves to have everything they own in trash bags. This provides them with a well made bag and goodies that are included with the bag.
- The National Build-a-Bike Tour is a tour that travels from group homes to other group homes and provide the foster kids with brand new bicycles that are made for them. Its a 4 week tour and they get to provide over 1,000 foster kids with bikes.
- The shopping spree is also one of the many fundraisers that Together We Rise has. The shopping spree gives 100 dollars to a foster kid and allows them to buy new clothes. Foster kids don’t have the opportunity to buy new clothes and don’t have jobs. These kids have to travel from home to home with little belongings and this provides them with more clothes.
- Disneyland adventures is given to around 200 foster kids. What it does, is that it gives these kids a time to be reunited with their families that they had lost when going into the foster system. It gives them time with their family in Disneyland and to get a break from the system.
- Holiday toys are in session right now and what it is a fundraiser. It raises money to buy toys for foster kids. for the holidays foster kids don’t receive gifts on Christmas like other kids. This fundraiser provides gifts to those kids that don’t get gifts on Christmas.
No Child Should have Two Trash Bags
Sweet Cases Can Help
Give BIkes to Foster KIds
Education
- Less than 3% of foster kids go to college and get a bachelor's degree.
- On an average only half of foster kids will get a job after the age of 24.
- 1 out of 5 will become homeless after turning 18.
- These foster kids have the lack of basic skills and 65% have to travel from school to school as much as 7 or more schools.
- Up to 24% are in special education.
- Foster kids have to experience traveling from home to home but also with the effect it has on their education. They don’t get the amount of education a person has that has a stable home situation.
- Kids in foster care suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at a higher rate than veterans that have returned from combat war. This is a serious issue accruing and needs to be brought to the light so we can deal with this.
- Education is a value that is necessary in today's world. It provides people with well paying jobs and these kids don’t get that opportunity.
Big Name Companies
Where Does the Money That Together We Rise fund raises go to?
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Why Should We Care about Together We Rise?
Why is Together We Rise important and Valuable and Why Should We Support it?
What About The Volunteers Age?
Together We Rise...
Together We Rise supports a well known cause like helping foster kids with the foster care system, and that isn’t represented as much and they help bring that issue to the light. They help by creating Sweet Cases, bikes, and a toy drive that is helping foster kids get presents on Christmas. Help them not carry their belongings in two trash bags and provide them with a Sweet Case. Give bikes to them when they never even received one in their whole life. The volunteers may be young but their age is an advantage to being able to bound with the foster kids and understanding issues surrounding their age and the age helps calibrate with big name companies.
References
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Parentmap.com,. (2015). Learn About the Issues: The Facts About Foster Care - ParentMap. Retrieved 4 December 2015, from https://www.parentmap.com/article/learn-about-the-issues-foster-care-faq
Togetherwerise.org,. (2015). Together We Rise | Our Story. Retrieved 1 December 2015, from https://www.togetherwerise.org/aboutus/ourstory
Ccainstitute.org,. (2015). Facts and Statistics. Retrieved 7 December 2015, from http://ccainstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=25&layout=blog&Itemid=43