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    Book On SALE Now!

    The Everybody Needs Someone, The Aging out of Foster Care Project Book is published and available for purchase! You can order our book through paypal by selecting the Buy Now button below. The book is 94 pages, 9″x12″. Funds raised through the sale of the book will go right back into production of the Aging [...]

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    The Aging Out of Foster Care Book is on Fire!

    Our Everybody Needs Someone book is on fire!  We only have about 50 copies left from the first run of the book. Buy it now and support our project so we can order another run! What happens when youth age out of the foster care system in the NYC area?  Everybody Needs Somebody takes a [...]

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    Opening Reception for Everybody Needs Someone June 23, 2012

    Online event registration for Everybody Needs Someone, The Aging-Out of Foster Care Photography Exhibition at LICM powered by Eventbrite Join US! For the opening Reception for the Everybody Needs Someone, Aging-Out of Foster Care Project by SalaamGarageNYC. Join many of the photographers, writers, and subjects from this important humanitarian media project about the challenges youth face [...]

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    A Family Found: Elijah’s Story

    Not every foster child finds a family. The forgotten ones grow up alone in the faceless embrace of bureaucracy. Waiting and wishing, like runts in a litter of kittens staring hopelessly out of an emptying box. Elijah Callender is one of those people. Like the others, the state covered his eyes and clutched him tightly until his 21st birthday. Then it dropped him.

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    Purpose and Faith Give Krista Strength

    Story by Mollie Neal Photography by Heather Walsh Krista spends her working hours tending to a woman with dementia in an assisted living facility. Like so many health-care aides, she is a nurturing soul. Some would call it ironic that this is her job. She spent most of her childhood being shuttled from one foster [...]

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    111 backers and only 8 days to go

    Its been an incredible couple of days.  Today we have almost reached 50% of our fundraising goal and are so happy to report 42 more backers in the last 4 days.  But, we have to do better because, with Kickstarter, its raise it all or get nothing!  $7000 to go. Look what rolled off the [...]

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