Tuesday, January 26, 2010

7-year old boy raises $160K for Haiti Relief

Talking about giving back, Charlie Simpson, a 7-year-old boy from England has raised over $160-thousand for the relief fund for Haitian earthquake victims.

The unselfish kid asked his mother if he could set up a sponsored bicycle ride around his local park in West London.  Originally expecting to raise around $1,000 for UNICEF Haiti appeal with a 5-mile bike ride on Sunday, donations poured in from his webpage and are still coming.

His mother Lenora Simpson stated,

" He was really upset by the pictures on TV. He actually burst into tears. He sat on my lap and we had a chat about the things he could do. He decided to do the cycle ride and he made me do a sponsorship form and that was it. We sent it out on the web and it just went everywhere."

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