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Kennewick teen launches Dignity Duffels to aid foster children entering care.

Each duffel includes essentials like pajamas, toiletries, books and notes.

Simmons family seeks nonprofit status to expand donations and outreach.

When Rhylinn Simmons arrived at her third foster home in Portland, she carried her belongings in a cardboard box.

She was just 6.

Now 13 and adopted into a loving family, Rhylinn has turned a painful childhood memory into a mission of compassion.

After moving with her family from Portland to Kennewick three years ago, she launched her project, Dignity Duffles, with the goal of delivering hundreds of duffle bags filled with comfort items to children entering foster care, so no child has to feel the fear and uncer

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