Families now make up 40 percent of the country’s homeless population. Within these families, more than 1.3 million children are homeless at some time each year. On any given day, at least 800,000 Americans, including about 200,000 children, find themselves without a home.
Homelessness is a growing problem in America and a large segment of the homeless population is families with children. There are many things that you can do to brighten the lives of homeless children - our idea for today is to provide Easter Baskets to children at your local homeless shelter. This is a great way to involve your children in giving to others. Easter is a month away so start by contacting your local homeless shelter (you can use the widget below to locate a shelter in your area) and ask them if you can provide Easter baskets for the children at the shelter. The shelter will tell you how many children they currently are housing, make sure to make a few extra just in case. This is something my sister and I did with our kids several years ago. We were able to obtain low cost easter baskets (Dollar stores are great places to find these items) and filled them with candy and small toys. I believe we created 19 baskets and it made us feel so good when we dropped the baskets off at the shelter. Small gestures like this can go a long way toward helping children maintain a sense of normalcy and routine in a very difficult situation.
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