The foster care system is known to be tough on kids - but Tiffany Haddish has made a beautiful gesture to show her support this week.
Read on to see what she did...
Tiffany Haddish has hit the headlines for a remarkable reason this week...
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And while her story is heartbreaking, the outcome will warm even the coldest of hearts.Haddish is a massively successful actress now...
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But she's opened up about her humble beginnings in foster care and by doing so, she has offered a gesture of hope to children in the same boat.It's a sad reality of life, but there are so many children out there who have no real family...
And, as a result of this, these unfortunate people end up being passed to and from various different families throughout their childhoods.This is called the foster system...
And, sadly, this system can prove to be a cruel and damaging experience for many children.Hundreds of thousands of children are in the foster system here in the U.S...
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And on any given day, there are nearly 443,000 children in foster care.Much of our foster care system is broken...
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And the children suffer as a result. And, more often than not, children don't even get a real foster home, they are, instead, sent to live in institutions or group homes.Many children are bounced from one foster home to another...
And, as a result, they can sometimes experience very little stability while growing up.
Which is something that Tiffany Haddish knows all too well.
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After her mother was in a horrific car accident, Haddish found herself in the foster care system."You never knew who she was going to be; I was begging my mom to [let me] go live with my grandma."
"You're dropped in these strangers' houses, you don't know these people, these people don't know you, you don't know if they're gonna hurt you, if they're gonna be kind, you don't have a clue what's going on," she recently shared.But Haddish revealed one thing that helped her through this tough time in her life...
And that was having her own suitcase."I had a purpose, like I'm a person like I'm not garbage, I got this."
I saw Tiffany Haddish talk about how finally getting a suitcase while in the system felt and it broke my heart to t… https://t.co/ODeQdRzxCf— Not your mate (@Not your mate)1604996910.0
So Haddish decided to make an incredible move...
Watching the David Letterman interview with Tiffany Haddish who's a Sagittarius. When she spoke about how getting h… https://t.co/sBG8sOvh1S— Astrology by Mecca (@Astrology by Mecca)1603586033.0
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"These are just some of the over ninety-five suitcases donated from last week’s Tiffany Haddish show in Bloomington."
"The actress/comedian always requests ticket holders bring suitcases to donate to local children in foster care. It’s the second year we received a donation from her show. Thank you to all who donated and to Tiffany, we are so grateful!"
