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AUSTIN (KXAN)– The Travis Region Constable’s Office and nonprofit Texas Advocacy Job (TAP) introduced their 2025 “Handbags & & Backpacks for Hope” project at a Monday interview, throughout which they will collect bags to place “life-saving info in the hands of survivors throughout Texas.”
The project will certainly take brand-new bags, especially purses, shopping bag, diaper bags, and backpacks, at drop off points revealed listed below.
Faucet’s emphasis gets on supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, youngster misuse, stalking and human trafficking, according to its objective declaration. The not-for-profit has actually been active given that the 1980 s.
The nonprofit’s chief executive officer Heather Bellino said this year’s project is the very first time TAP has actually attempted to combine its Handbags for Hope and Backpacks for Hope campaigns.
“Many years, we would certainly get more purses and much less knapsacks, however we assume if the call to action as elevated and louder, then the area will come together and see to it that we are supplying these really essential bags to individuals that require them one of the most,” she said.
“This project started at the very start of my profession, and I have seen it grow and blossom, and it means the world to me, since it says that the neighborhood is below in support of sufferers,” Bellino stated. “We’re no more keeping this hidden … we, as an area, are saying this abuse is not acceptable in our backyard.”
Travis Area Constable Sally Hernandez and Travis Region District 5 Constable Carlos Lopez additionally talked at the Monday press conference.
“We make amplifying the voice of sufferers a high top priority here when it comes to residential violence and abuse … we intend to supply them all of the sources and all the assistance that we can possibly give them,” Hernandez stated. “Often, a survivor of misuse does not usually leave that circumstance promptly, but when they do … they’re mosting likely to order whatever.”
“Residential violence is an epidemic. The Texas Campaigning For Project has been so innovative in thinking of ideas on exactly how we can assist the targets run away, because often times they don’t have enough time to gather whatever that they require,” Lopez claimed. “Inside the [bag] is pertinent details that they need when they do leave. When we began all this, the kids would provide the handbags to their moms on Mom’s Day.”
Lopez claimed he believed the campaign could collect at least 5, 000 bags.
The project ends June 28