Teens' project provides foster children with luggage

Published: 2004-04-21

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- A discussion of Catholic social teaching at a retreat prompted 14-year-olds Kelly Drake and Molly Wright to reach out to foster children. As part of a weekend retreat known as Micah 6:8 and sponsored by the Baltimore archdiocesan Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, high school participants seriously consider issues of justice and peace and then plan follow-up activities in their schools and parishes. Drake and Wright, members of St. Ursula Parish in the Baltimore suburb of Parkville, were inspired to collect suitcases for foster children after watching a television program about youths who collected and decorated luggage for them. A number of such projects have been started around the country to help the many foster children who have nothing in which to carry their belongings when they are moved from place to place.

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