N.B. news: organization focuses on helping foster families [Video]

Taking over one corner of Amanda Lepper’s garage is carefully labelled bins stacked on top of one another, but they aren’t filled with typical supplies, they’re filled with donations for foster families in need.

“We adopted a little girl when she was 3.5 [years old] and she has siblings that went into the system and it broke my heart because I really wanted to take them and I knew I couldn’t,” said Lepper, the Moncton coordinator for Fostering Closet NB.

“I’m a full time teacher, we have two other children and there was just no way and so I thought ‘I have to do something to help families, foster families.’”

Today, Lepper is apart of a growing organization called Fostering Closet NB – a group that aims to make things easier for both the foster families and the children and youth who are in care.

Co-founder and Owner, Kailha Winter-Smith, who is also …