Nate’s Next Kid Up takes 30 foster kids to Astros game [Video]

HOUSTON, Texas — There are more than 31,000 children in the foster care system in the Lone Star State. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) says in Region 11, which covers 19 counties from Refugio to Brownsville, there are just under 2,500 children in the system.  

Here in Nueces County, just over 700 children and young adults are currently in foster care. 30 of them were given the opportunity to take a road trip to Minute Made Park to see the Houston Astros take on the Texas Rangers in the Silver Boot Series. 

The group loaded up in a charter bus early Sunday morning and hit the road for Houston. The person responsible for the idea is 10-year-old non-profit leader Nate Gonzalez with Nate’s Next Kid Up. 

“I’m looking forward to everybody …