Volunteers in San Diego County are packing up hundreds of Comfort Cubs this weekend to send to Uvalde
Dozens of volunteers turned out Saturday morning to pack therapeutic teddy bears made by a local nonprofit to help in some small way to ease the grief from Tuesday’s mass shooting in Texas.
After an official in the mayor’s office in Uvalde told Johnson of the depth of the trauma the children in the school are experiencing, Johnson decided to donate another 660, including a few extras in case some teachers need them, too.“It’s not just a plush stuffed animal, it’s a therapeutic teddy bear,” Johnson said.
“I just think this will give those kids a lot of comfort and love,” said 14-year-old James Jansen. Fellow Calavera Hills Middle School student Olivia Clark agreed. “A lot of people lost those who they were really close to,” she said, “and we just need to make sure they feel better.
Shannon Moffett’s feet were bloodied after she ran over shattered glass at the Las Vegas shooting. “When I was healing a couple months afterwards, I found an old teddy bear and at night when you’re kind of alone and when you’re holding something, it just really helped,” the Encinitas designer said. “And then finding out that they’re sending all these to the kids, to hold and give them some comfort at night, it’s such a huge thing.
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