COLORADO SPRINGS — On Friday morning, FOX21 Information and Loving Residing Native teamed as much as host a donation drive for Reclaiming Hope, exterior the FOX21 Information studio on Wooten Street.
Reclaiming Hope is a Nonprofit that serves and cares for survivors of intercourse trafficking “on the level of restoration, throughout restoration and reintegration by addressing their bodily, emotional and religious wants.”
The donation drive started at eight a.m. and can proceed till 11 a.m. on Friday, August 26. Sues Hess, Govt Director of Reclaiming Hope, stated they’re in want of a number of objects to fill the group’s ‘Hope Luggage,’ that are given to the survivors of intercourse trafficking.
Hess stated the Hope Luggage are despatched out to help legislation enforcement all through the U.S. and embody “a full set of clothes, consolation objects and a hygiene package, given to individuals rescued from intercourse trafficking.” Hess stated they pack the luggage for youngsters and adults, ranging in sizes from “2T-2XL (male, feminine and common).”
Hess tells FOX21 that as a result of Reclaiming Hope despatched 498 Hope Luggage to help Operation Cross Nation and legislation enforcement nationally, their cabinets are actually naked. Sixty extra Hope Luggage have additionally been requested to be despatched out by the tip of August, so Hess stated the necessity to restock provides for the luggage continues to extend.
Hess stated the common worth per Hope Bag is $150, and something individuals can donate from the listing above will assist help the mission of Reclaiming Hope.
When you’d wish to drop off a donation, you are able to do so exterior the FOX21 Information studio (560 Wooten Street), till 11 a.m. Friday morning.
If individuals are unable to make the donation drive on Friday, Reclaiming Hope additionally accepts financial donations, and donations could be made right here.
