Friday (tomorrow) is Dress Purple Day.
Dress Purple Day is an annual event put on by the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies and associated organizations to bring attention to child abuse.
Thursday at a meeting of Hastings County council the executive director of The Children’s Foundation Melanie Cressman said it was important for people to not only donate financially to help abused and under privileged kids but to become mentors to them.
” … and giving children and youth that may be vulnerable and are at a disadvantage opportunities to be better, to learn, to experience things in
the world that they may otherwise not have a chance to. Children are a product of their environment, their networks and the people they
spend the most time with. We all have the responsibility to give kids the tools they need to break out of harmful and precarious cycles.”
The Children’s Foundation, working hand in hand with Highland Shores Children’s Aid, raises about $800,000 a year to help abused and underprivileged children in Hastings, Prince Edward, and Northumberland counties.
