The next donation drive for Refresh Bags is being managed by Carter and Evan Keith, along with a group of student volunteers, at Caravel Academy during the week of April 29 to May 3, 2019. Their goal is to ask Caravel Academy students and their families to donate either toiletry items to fill the Refresh Bags or donate money, to buy the toiletry items needed to fill the bags.

This round of Refresh Bags is for 35 teen boys and 35 teen girls. The filled bags will be given to the Youth and Family Services division of the State of Delaware.

The items they are gathering are name brand items, such as:

• Body wash
• Deodorant
• Shampoo/Conditioner
• Toothpaste
• Toothbrushes
• Shaving cream (for boys)
• Feminine products (for girls)
• Chapstick
• Tissues
• Comb
• Something fun — like a pack of cards, jewelry making kit, nail polish, electronic Scrabble game.

Every dollar and every item donated to Refresh Bags is put towards filling the bags.  Refresh Bags is a 501(c)(3) organization started in September 2016.  To date we’ve donated over 120 Refresh Bags to teens in Delaware’s foster care, this next batch of 70 will bring us up to 190 bags!

Our goal is to make the teens feel better about themselves and to help to increase their feelings of self-worth.  We purposely hand make each bag to represent permanence, they are made to last a long time.

Thank you for your donation and support of Refresh Bags.  If you’d like to donate now, click here to go to our PayPal donation page.

Thank you!