“These SIM cards have the biggest impact on our young people in positive ways”
“These SIM cards have the biggest impact on our young people”
Setting out into the world as a young person, fresh out of school or college and away from home for the first time, can be daunting at the best of times. It can be much more difficult though for young people leaving care, especially as they typically face challenges not faced by their peers who haven’t been in care.
Comfort Cases UK is a charity that supports children, from newborns to 21-year-olds , who are in or have experienced care. They do so in a very specific but highly considered and highly considerate way – with bespoke bags of belongings. As many children in care have to move home, often at short notice, in stressful circumstances and more than once, they may have no choice but to carry their few belongings with them in something as impersonal as a black bin bag.
Comfort Cases UK aims to avoid this by providing them with a rucksack or duffel bag that they can call their own. This may sound modest, but such bags can be emotively personal in addition to being prosaically utilitarian. In protecting their belongings from damage or loss, the bags can offer the kids a sense of safety and security when they need it most.