As you know, we are going to be accepting school supply (and monetary) donations for Boys & Girls Aid this year at Wizarding Weekend. Like Harry, many kids have had to grow up in foster families. Boys & Girls Aid makes those transitions much easier on everyone, but especially the kids. Their goal is to make sure all children have a safe, stable home, along with the support needed to thrive in their environment, and ultimately go from foster to adoption.
As the first and longest-running child welfare agency in Oregon, Boys & Girls Aid maintains a legacy of impact through innovative foster care, adoption, emergency shelter, and supportive housing services, offering a full range of informed supports that meet each young person’s unique needs and circumstances.
Boys & Girls Aid is proudly leading the charge to create a bright future where a permanent, loving family and lifelong stability are within reach for every young person. We believe Harry would have both benefitted from such an agency in the Wizarding World, and also would have created something similar once he left school and second Wizarding War was over. All kids deserve a loving, safe family, so let’s help them with just a few things they need for starting the school year off right.
As you can see, they are not in need of backpacks, which I know people love buying for extra House Points. This year we will give out extra points for gift cards instead – 1 point per $. Everything is is 1 point per item. Thank you in advance for all your generous donations. The Wizarding fandom always shows up to make magic for the great charities we choose each year and we are so grateful for it.
If you are at Wizarding Weekend on Saturday before the costume contest, Daisy from Boys & Girls Aid will be talking about their org and all the good they do. We can’t wait to see you!
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