Listening provides more vision than you will ever see.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING!
"If we don't look at our children, they will never seen themselves! We must help them get through it, even if they never get over it. Foster is not a birth designation, it's a place holder for funding, it tells our nation, how many lives we have in our hands to give hope to every day."
Gigi Edwards Bryant
Welcome!
The WRITE TO ME FOUNDATION was established in October 2004 by Gigi Edwards Bryant, who entered the foster system in Travis county in 1964 at the age of six (6) years with her siblings. She aged out at 18, homeless, seeking to finish high school, and with her young daughter. After staying with friends and acquaintances and eventually finding her great grandmother and a cousin, who offered her a place to stay, she knew that the family, siblings, and relationships that were lost to the system were changed forever.
The Foundation is fueled by friends, individuals, grants and corporations that have a passion for serving God's most vulnerable population, His children. The goals of the foundation is to provide let our children know that if they are breathing, they are precious and sometimes that comes with challenges that are out of their control. The Foundation's goals are accomplished through mentoring, volunteering, grants and donations.
The Write to Me Foundation model acknowledges that children experience, respects their journey and give them permission, that may have not be verbalized before, to believe in who they are and who they have become thus far. It is step by step that we journey when the path is unknown, not in leaps and bounds.
We inspire children to live up to their full potential and privilege through Christ, because foster is not a word God uses to describe his children or set their limitations, dreams or accomplishments.
We operate with the belief that if we ignite hope, the sparkle in their eyes will light their fire. 'Sometimes, in any experience, we have to close our eyes to see the future.'
Gigi Edwards Bryant