From left to right: Khloe, Miles, Anniston, Ryder and Collins
Why did Miles & Ryder select Duffle bags for children in foster care?
9 years ago, one of our best friends, Khloe, was born. Her birth story started out less than ideal. As she lay in the NICU nursery, our friends Lindsey and Luke received a phone call asking if they would take a newborn foster placement. At four days old, little 4-pound Khloe, with only a dirty blanket to her name, left the hospital in their arms.
Thankfully, that is not where Khloe’s story ended. She is now a part of a beautiful, loving family that champions her as she grows up. However, that isn’t the story for so many right now. There are currently an estimated over 391,000 children in foster care in the United States.
Every 2 minutes, a new child enters the foster care system. Many of these children, when going from home to home, carry their possessions in a trash bag. We want to fill up and donate duffle bags for these children. We hope this full bag offers them dignity, helps them feel seen (not forgotten), and cared for by someone.
Please help us honor Khloe by blessing children in foster care. You can sponsor a duffle bag or purchase something from our shop, and all of the proceeds will go towards more duffle bags! Our bags will be donated to BCS Together!
You may see on a few of our things the words “Daring Greatly.” It is based on one of our favorite quotes.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
