OUR MISSION

Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation creates opportunities to build self-esteem and empower children and youth in foster care by funding services to enrich their life experiences and ensure their successful transition to adulthood.

Our current mission, 40 years later, embodies our founding mission:

Charles Dickens wrote that “in the little world in which children exist, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.” Anne Hall Whitt, in her book Suitcases, noted “for the foster child, life can be a series of injustices, each more overwhelming than the one before.” As such, Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation was organized by individual citizens and professionals from all over Arizona to help offset some of these injustices by doing what we can to give children in foster care as normal a lifestyle as possible during their time in foster care.

As long as injustices continue in foster care, AFFCF will ‘do what we can’ to give children in foster care the childhood they deserve.