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Wilmot School's Annual Birthday Cake Program Showers Fill a Heart 4 Kids with 250 Birthday Cakes and Party Supplies for Local Foster Children

Deerfield, Ill. (March 26, 2019) - Deerfield-based Wilmot School showered local foster children with love and kindness by packing over 250 Birthday Cake Care Packages for Fill a Heart 4 Kids©! This amazing tradition of giving back to the community has helped hundreds of local foster children to feel loved and remembered on their birthdays.

Students met with their Kindness Corner Buddies and created beautiful birthday cards for children who live in area foster care facilities and group homes. During this recent all-school event, they also decorated and filled 250 grocery bags with Happy Birthday messages and all of the ingredients for a birthday celebration - from birthday cakes to party supplies.

Over the last two years, the Wilmot Kindness Corner program has helped more than 570 foster children in the FAH4K's program. This lovely community partnered with FAH4K when they learned that group homes for foster children can't afford to celebrate birthdays with cakes and little gifts - as well as other special occasions and holidays. Their motto is simple: Kindness! Wilmot celebrates all school holidays by giving back in a BIG way!

During 2018, Fill a Heart 4 Kids had an incredible impact on the community. FAH4K delivered over 30,165 4 Kids Survival BacPacs© and 4 Kids Care Packages©, and 50,000 4 Kids Meals© to help unaccompanied homeless youth get off the street at night, warm up, feel safe and eat with dignity. They delivered over 22,500 4 Kids School Supplies© and 8,000 supplemental school supplies throughout the year to help keep homeless youth worry-free and in school. They launched their pilot Work Program for foster youth and hosted events to help kids experience happiness and hope. Over 2,000 encouraging notes were delivered monthly to remind these kids that they're remembered, they're valuable and they are capable of so much more.

Help FAH4K continue the momentum! Donations benefit Fill a Heart 4 Kids' 2019 initiatives that give rescued children, children living in group homes and unaccompanied homeless kids, tools and positive experiences to help them heal and restore their dignity - 4 Brighter Futures! Visit www.fillaheart4kids.org to make a donation and to learn about ways to get involved throughout the year.

View photos of the packing process and drop off of the birthday bags at https://flic.kr/s/aHskNR5yPt.

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