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Oak Grove Students Receive Duffel Bags Packed With Love

The donation to Oak Grove students was part of the third annual "Do Good Stuff-a-Thon," a nationwide effort.

More than 170 duffel bags filled with toys, toiletries, blankets and other new items recently made their way into the hands of youth at in Murrieta.

The donation to Oak Grove students was part of the third annual "Do Good Stuff-a-Thon," a nationwide effort. Items in the bags are collected through My Stuff Bags Foundation with the help of Toy Industry Foundation.

More than 130 toy industry volunteers assembled the bags for children to commemorate National Foster Care Month, said Kristi Reedy, spokesperson for Oak Grove Center.

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Oak Grove, which operates campuses in Murrieta and Perris, is a 24-hour residential treatment center for children and youth with a variety of psychological, social, emotional, behavioral, medical and neurological problems with concurrent behavioral difficulties, school problems, family dysfunction and alcohol or substance abuse.

"Many of the children have suffered physical and/or sexual abuse, other traumas or experienced many other social, emotional or behavioral challenges," Reedy said.

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More than 5,000 My Stuff Bags were distributed nationwide in May.

“Special events like the annual Do Good Stuff-a-thon and the generous, year-round support of the Toy Industry Foundation make it possible for us to keep on supplying My Stuff Bags to organizations such as Oak Grove Center,” said Janeen Holmes, president and CEO of My Stuff Bags Foundation, in a news release.

“Each duffel is filled with new and necessary childhood essentials, including a toy, to welcome children into their loving care," Holmes said.

“The Do Good Stuff-a-thon is a day when members of the toy industry roll up their sleeves and work together to ensure toys get to kids who have nothing of their own,” said Jean Butler, TIF executive director and vice president of membership at the Toy Industry Association. 

To learn more about the Do Good Stuff-a-Thon, click here.


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