Tammy Levent Announces Another Year of "ItsMyBag.Cool" to Provide Foster Children With Some Dignity
The acclaimed entrepreneur, travel expert author and speaker is asking for help, as she continues to help children who need it the most.
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Entrepreneur and travel expert Tammy Levent has announced another big holiday season push for "It's My Bag," a humanitarian effort which provides suitcases, bags and toiletries to foster children.
She is looking for people willing to coordinate and serve as drop-off locations around the country.
Levent was inspired in this effort upon visiting Friends of Joshua House, a safe haven for children in need. Levent saw children using black plastic bags for their belongings and began a mission with one principle in mind: No child or the things they own should be cast aside.
Nanci March of Friends of Joshua House Foundation is grateful for the effort.
"Most times when a child comes to Joshua House," March said, "they arrive with only the clothes they are wearing. If they do have personal items, they are usually in a garbage bag—literally. Suitcases give these children some dignity."
The idea that these children—or their belongings—are equal to garbage is a stigma many of these children are already fighting.
According to a statistic from Children's Rights.org: On any given day, there are nearly 438,000 children in foster care in the United States.
"We want our children to feel worthy," March said.
The National Speakers Association has signed on as a major national sponsor of the initiative.
The entire effort has been hosted and chronicled at ItsMyBag.Cool, a name and website domain selected by many of the same foster kids that Levent has been helping over the years.
Levent says that they are looking for persons and organizations who can arrange to coordinate and collect the bags when they are dropped off. Specifically, they are looking to pair those collection points with facilities that need help in the same area.
Of course, they are also looking for more bags.
For more information and to sign up to help, visit ItsMyBag.Cool.
About Tammy Levent:
Tammy Levent is the CEO of Elite Travel Management Group and an author, speaker, business consultant, entrepreneur, television personality and humanitarian.
Contact: Tammy Levent
[email protected]
727-560-2700
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