A Georgia charity is encouraging families to consider opening their homes to foster children. | Tyler Nix/Unsplash
A Georgia charity is encouraging families to consider opening their homes to foster children. | Tyler Nix/Unsplash
A Georgia charity is doing all it can to stay afloat after pipes at their building in Lawrenceville, Georgia, ruptured on Christmas day causing massive flooding.
Care4All Children Services employees are trying to salvage what they can while keeping the agency running at a critical time for many across the state, according to a Dec. 28 Fox 5 Atlanta report.
"We've helped thousands of children during our 10 years of foster care services in Georgia," Executive Director, Veronica Guobadia, said in the report. "We are just one of the agencies that we try to do everything we can to try to license homes, license foster homes, and place those children in foster homes."
The therapeutic foster care agency contracts with the state to help place children in licensed foster homes, according to the report.
Care4All Children Services lost car seats, clothes, food, children's toys, laptops, and many other items in the flooding and are seeking assistance to replace those items, Fox 5 reported. The items were going to be distributed to foster families.
“When we get donations, we save them until we place that child, because sometimes we place kids in the evening, sometimes at night, and the foster parents don't have the car seat, the stroller, the crib, so we try to give it to them when we place those children in their homes," Guobadia said.
While Care4All Children Services recovers from unwelcome holiday flooding, Guobadia said foster parents are in “dire need” in Georgia.
She encouraged families to consider opening their homes to foster children as they are likely in desperate need of stability, according to Fox 5.
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