A 9-year-old girl is teaching all of us what compassion is.
Abby Simpson was not one of the usual children who go to Greenbrook Park, Lakewood Ranch to play after a big day. She had something more phenomenal in her mind.
Watch the video below to learn what she did.
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“I woke up one morning and I felt like I wanted to do something good,” Abby said. “I found money in my room and I put it in a basket, and my mom woke up and I said, ‘Mom, I want to do this.’”
However, little Abby had no concrete concept of “this,” and all she knew was that she wants to make the world a better place.
“Always be kind in the world and don’t be mean. Just do good things,” Abby continued.
Abby knows that the things that happen in life are not always good. So she wants to be there for people who are going through bad things.
“I like to do these bags,” Abby said, showing her bags.
“They’re bags that I give to the sheriff’s office for the kids who they run into in situations like car wrecks or if the police get called to the house where there’s children, if their parents need something.”
Though the most valuable thing in these bags is Abby’s love and kindness, she also puts crayons, sketchbooks, squishy toys, and coloring books in them.
“When I have squishy toys they make me feel better, so I thought it would help them feel better,” Abby explained.
It does make children feel better and so far, Abby has dispensed 150 such bags. All of it was made possible with the money her family and friends donated to her cause.
She started by donating the bags to Manatee County Sheriff’s Office with the intention of putting them right into the hands of those in need.
“We’ve always known she’s had this heart from the time that she could talk and walk,” her dad Aaron Simpson said.
“But to see her actually using it and developing it into something that’s meaningful and that benefits not just herself but others, it means the world to both of us.”
Abby has a message for everyone out there.
“I’m really happy, it makes me happy,” she said.”
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