Litchfield County Board of Realtors donates gift cards for kids

LITCHFIELD - The Litchfield County Board of Realtors presented Wal-Mart, Kmart and Stop & Shop gift cards in the amount of $2,115.00 to representatives of the Torrington Department of Children and Families. The gift cards were donated as part of the board's "REALTORS® Have A Heart For Kids" program on March 7.

These gift cards will be used to support children, by allowing social workers to purchase clothes, health care products, formula, diapers, school supplies, toys, or perhaps a stuffed animal to keep the child company in their new surroundings. The Board said the initiative is important in order to ensure that despite finding themselves uprooted children taken into DCF custody have, at the very least, some familiar possessions to take with them and to ensure their immediate needs are met.

Another way DCF uses the cards to support these children is by creating various age appropriate placement packs, to have on hand for immediate use, consisting of clothing, health and beauty aid products, toys, personal items, etc and a "few" goodies to comfort an abused/neglected child through the trauma of entering a strange, new environment.

Pictured from left are Kim D’Andrea and Linda Hull.