Existing comment:
"Foster Grandparents benefits [sic] both sides; children who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted."
-- Nancy Reagan
Foster Grandparents:
In the Foster Grandparents program, older Americans befriend children with disabilities. Nancy Reagan became interested in the program as First Lady of California.
In February 1981, she taped a public service announcement for Foster Grandparents at the White House. As first lady, she traveled thousands of miles to bring support to the program. By 1985, the number of foster grandparents had grown from 782 to roughly 19,000, helping some 65,000 children. |