Posted on 03/13/2017 12:43:58 AM PDT by grundle
One Chicago kindergartner wanted to feed the homeless instead of throw a birthday party.
Armani Crews, who turned 6 earlier this month, had been begging her parents for "a few months" to feed homeless people in her community, but her parents thought "she was joking," her mother, Artesha Crews, told ABC News.
"I said, 'OK, we'll make some sandwiches,' to which Armani said, 'No. I want the same thing we'd have at my birthday party,'" her mother recalled.
Even when her father, Antoine, informed her that if she wanted to go through with this, she wouldn't get a birthday gift, the girl, whose birthday was March 5, persisted.
So the Chicago family spent about $300 buying food to deliver to homeless people in the city's East Garfield Park neighborhood. They purchased chicken, fish, spaghetti, corn, green beans, mashed potatoes, rolls, cake, cookies, fruit and water.
After Armani mentioned her plan at the family's local church, congregation members donated other items to create care packages for the homeless.
Each care package included a toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, hand sanitizer and a snack, such as a granola bar.
Armani's birthday party was a success, with the family feeding more than 125 people who gathered.
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May God bless her mightily!
Public school indoctrination of minds full of mush. Pathetic. No 6-year-old knows enough about life to understand homelessness and what contributing factors are. She’s just being raised to be another BLM SJW punk. I do hope I’m wrong.
Children aren’t stupid. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand what it’s like not to have a home or food. One doesn’t need to know the causes of homelessness, to understand what it’s like to be cold and hungry.
Why in the world would you criticize a wonderful child who gave up her own birthday party, to do the Lord’s work?
There must be more to the story. It made it into a newspaper after all. This isn’t the empathic unselfish act it’s being portrayed to be. It’s likely just more fake news with an ulterior motive.
Gotta do a lot of human interest stuff to hide the truth. Lies of omission.
I know a couple kids in my daughters (she is 6) class that did things like this. They gave their Christmas presents away. Their parents were extreme liberals. I assumed that the children were heavily coerced in their decisions; the only way I know about this, is because the mothers bragged about it.
One of the kids admitted that she was very sad that she didn’t get anything.
Typical Leftists — generous with other people’s property, even their children’s.
You probably are wrong. Maybe, just maybe, this child has heard enough I homelessness in her community to want - even at her young age - to do something about it. She should be lauded for it.
*heard enough about..
Pure BS.
A 6-year-olds should not be tormented with the fear of homelessness.
Absolutely! “Fake news” “newspaper” “alterior motive”
Making a big splash out of donating to the poor?
So do I. (hope you are wrong).
I visit a local shelter for homeless families on Christmas and Thanksgiving. I’m on the board of directors (a volunteer position) of the organization that runs the shelter, and it helps keep lines of communication open between the board and the staff.
One Christmas day, I found a local family preparing the Christmas meal for the residents. Their two pre-teen sons had asked their parents to use the money that they would have spent for their Christmas presents to provide a Christmas dinner for the homeless.
It’s a shelter that does not merely provide a bed and a roof. The kids must be in school, the parent(s) must be in school, job training, or working, and after thirty days, they are moved into bridge housing, which has a diminishing rent subsidy for two years.
More likely the parent’s idea.
The mother just wanted bragging rights. I don’t share my charitable activities.
Why should a 6 year-old have to think about “giving back to the community”?
That is a very cynical and low view of humanity.
I tend to agree though. It is probably her parents virtue signaling about how understanding they are and the child is just a prop to them.
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