Six-Year-Old With “Big Heart” Delivers Over 500 Care Packages To Homeless Community Members
Aug 21, 2020 by apost team
Paris Williams is a 6-year-old from the St. Louis, Missouri community of Kirkwood. One would expect a 6-year-old to be concerned with playing with friends and doing the type of things generally associated with this age range, but Paris is breaking that mold and doing something truly amazing.
She has started her own nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping homeless people in the St. Louis area. She has created her own Paris Cares Foundation that is dedicated to this mission. It is one of the most heartwarming stories to hit the world wide web this year, and Paris's story has brought her fans from around the world who have viewed the video that tells her amazing story.
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It was a book that initially gave Paris Williams the incredible inspiration to want to start her own organization to help the homeless, according to The Union Journal. The book is called One Boy's Magic. It is written by author Cari Chadwick Deal. When Paris read about the beauty of giving back to others, she decided that she wanted to make a difference. That is when this 6-year-old did something that no one expected. She said she wanted to help homeless people.
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A Book That Gave Her Big Inspiration
Alicia Marshall is Paris's mother, and she was delighted with her daughter's spirit of generosity, so she set out to help her. They decided to make care packages that could be delivered to the homeless. In the end, they passed out more than five hundred of these packages to homeless people in the St. Louis area, as The Union Journal reports. These packages included food and drink. They also included other essential supplies. Paris added a personal note of her own in each package after she personally filled them.
It really is an amazing story of a generous little girl who is mature beyond her years. This is why this story has significantly moved so many viewers around the world that have seen the video about Paris and her Paris Cares foundation.
Making Her Mother So Proud
Alicia Marshall really is as proud as can be of her daughter.
“It makes me really proud because with everything that’s going on in the world this small child who is entering first grade has such a big heart. She wants to give. She wants to help others,” Marshall told a local news outlet.
Paris's parents have been devoted to helping her to fulfill her goal of helping others. Paris and her family now await for the paperwork on her nonprofit to get approval. They are also selling items such as masks and t-shirt so that the money can be put toward continuing to give back and making people's lives better.
What was your reaction when you first heard about the generosity of 6-year-old Paris Williams? Were you blown away by her amazing initiative to start a nonprofit to help the homeless? Did it warm your heart to hear about how she has been going to such great lengths to help others by sending out care packages for the homeless? If you were as moved by this beautiful story as so many others have been, then pass it along so that more people can find out about Paris's amazing story.