Champlain College will host an event that will boost the Department of Children and Family Services’ (DCF) efforts of providing care and comfort to children in crisis in Vermont. The event is a "Bags of Love Volunteer Night", an initiative of Bags of Love Inc. The event is co-sponsored by Edible Arrangements and Champlain College’s Center for Service and Civic Engagement.
It will take place at the Fireside Lounge (next to the college cafeteria) in the IDX building at Champlain College. Activities for volunteers include: filling bags, cutting and/or sewing bags or quilts, tying blankets, making toiletry kits, accepting and organizing donations,and starting to wrapping items for the holiday bags for children in crisis. Volunteers ages 7 years and up are welcome to participate.

Donations can be dropped off at Edible Arrangements in 100 Dorset Street, South Burlington or brought to the event. Every donor will get a coupon for a free box of chocolates by Edible Arrangements.
DCF handles cases with all age groups, from infants to teenagers. We request donations of the following items to be dropped off on or before Nov 20:
- Materials for making small quilts
- Toiletries - toothbrush, toothpaste, bathing soap
- Small, medium, and large plush toys (age and gender appropriate)
- Dolls (for girls)
- Journals (for teens)
- Deck of cards
- Disposable camera
- Phone card
- Stationery
- Baby bottles
- Diapers
- Wipes

The Bags of Love Project was started in Lane county, Oregon, as a way to comfort children removed from their homes due to neglect, abuse, illness or poverty by giving them handmade bags that include basic toiletries, a quilt and a toy. The initiative has since extended its roots in Vermont with a chapter in St Albans. St Albans and Burlington have the highest numbers in the state, where as many as 27 children were removed from their homes in just one month in the city of St Albans. Our goal is to fill 100 bags of love!

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