For kids experiencing homelessness, it can't be easy seeing friends have birthday parties and not being able to have their own. These organizations can help.
“Habitot the only East Bay organization providing this memorable childhood experience to homeless children and their families,” their website reads. “Since launching Birthday Parties for Homeless Children 2014, Habitot has hosted 36 birthday parties with 648 attendees. We always have more families who ask than we have resources to support.”
Imagine what it must be like to be a kid experiencing homelessness. These kids go to school and have friends, so they see birthday parties being thrown. It must be heartbreaking not to be able to have their own parties. No, a birthday party probably isn’t a super high priority for a family struggling with homelessness, but this is such a small thing that has the potential to bring joy to so many kids.
, a nonprofit that mobilizes volunteers to throw birthday parties in shelters and transitional homes. Kids deserve to be kids, even if their circumstances make that tough. Because there are more homeless kids in the U.S. than many people realize. There’s no national reporting agency that’s keeping track of the total number, but thekeeps track of how many kids enrolled in public schools are experiencing homelessness. In 2016, that was 3 percent of all enrolled students, or more than 1.2 million kids nationwide.
Every kid deserves a warm bed, hot meals and a stable home. But if they have to go without, at least we can give them a birthday party, and a chance to enjoy just being a kid — because you only get one childhood.
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