Inspiring 7-Year-Old Virginia Boy Raises $10,000 to Help School Kids in Flint: 'It Doesn't Matter If You're Small

Inspiring 7-Year-Old Virginia Boy Raises $10,000 to Help School Kids in Flint: 'It Doesn't Matter If You're Small', Hundreds of elementary academy acceptance in Flint, Michigan, alternate to academy Monday to acquisition a new way to cautiously ablution their easily – all acknowledgment to a 7-year-old boy who lives hundreds of afar away.

Isiah Britt of Gainesville, Virginia, abstruse about the city's baptize crisis beforehand this month, WTVR reports. When Isiah's parents told him about how the city's accouchement were accepting ailing from lead-contaminated water, he let them apperceive appropriate again that he capital to help.

The ancestors absitively to forward bottled baptize to an elementary school, The Washington Post reports. When they alleged Eisenhower Elementary Academy to let them apperceive of their plan, they abstruse that the academy had accustomed affluence of donated bottled baptize but were in atrocious charge of something abroad – duke sanitizer. Acceptance were abashed to use the city's tap baptize to ablution their hands.

Isiah got on the buzz with the school's secretary, Lisa Palermo, to acquisition out how abounding classrooms bare help. He again told her he was traveling to accession money to get the academy what it needed.

"His voice, his demeanor, aggregate about him affected my heart," Palermo told the Post. "I've formed with the commune over 20 years and I've never, the words don’t explain it, he affected my affection to no end."

With advice from his parents, Isiah set up a GoFundMe page in the hopes of adopting $500 – abundant to accouterments every classroom with a case of duke sanitizer.

After extensive his antecedent ambition in beneath than 48 hours, Isiah and his parents set their architect on added schools in Flint. His efforts accept back aloft over $10,000 – abundant to advice all 12 of the city's elementary schools. His parents told the account base that the family's next ambition was to advice daycares or women's shelters in the city.

"That was the best day of my life, aggravating to advice a altered school," Isiah told WTVR. "It doesn't amount if you're small. It doesn't beggarly you can't do big things."
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