World Backpack is a non-profit organization founded in 2025. We provide backpacks filled with essential items (toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant etc.), clothes, shoes, and more to individuals around the world who have fallen on hard times due to personal struggles, financial hardship, natural disaster, war, victims of domestic violence and human trafficking etc. 

 

World Backpack was founded by Elisabeth Caraballo. There are two experiences she had in her life that helped lead her to creating World Backpack. The first being traveling with a non-profit organization to Haiti in 2011 a year after a catastrophic earthquake hit. Elisabeth and her group toured the devastation left behind by the earthquake, saw rebuilding efforts, met locals, visited orphanages and donated items including clothes and shoes from Elisabeth’s Grandma that had passed away a few months prior to the trip. 

 

The second was working as a Social Media Marketing and Events Intern for the non-profit organization The EDGE (Early Development of Global Education) in Miami, Florida. She helped with toy drives, visiting orphanages, filling backpacks with school supplies for underprivileged kids, helped teach a DSL (Discover, Science, Literacy) program, and organized events to help raise money for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. 

 

Elisabeth is no stranger to donating items to individuals in need and buying gifts for foster children and families from the Angel tree every year for christmas since she was a kid. She has also donated items to her local animal shelter and is a TNR caregiver for the cats in her community. These life experiences were eye opening in many ways and now Elisabeth is taking what she has learned and putting her heart and soul into her own non-profit, World Backpack. 

 

World Backpack’s mission is to brighten the lives of individuals that have fallen on hard times. We do this through providing backpacks filled with essential items, clothes, shoes, and more.