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DuBOIS â Many times when children are placed in foster care they must leave home with just the clothes on their backs â so this year the DuBois Rotary Club decided to donate 50 backpacks of supplies to Lifespan Children Services for foster children, ages infant through teenager.
Rotary President Gretchen Caruso, who is also the president of DuBois Central Catholic, explained that thereâs what the Rotary calls Governorâs Projects, which encourages clubs to do different things within the community and they will provide the money, but itâs a matching grant.
âMy passion is kids, so I wanted to do something thatâs going to impact kids,â said Caruso. âKnowing a lot about the foster care system, where when kids are put into foster care, they are often given either no time or a very little amount of time and a garbage bag to remove from their house what they want. The situation is bad enough, but to have nothing is tragic to me. I wanted to do s