Little boy raises 400,000 for liver disease

Dylan Siegel who is 7 years old has raised over 400,000 dollars for research in Glycogen Storage Disease. This 7 year old boy has raised more money than any medical research foundations combined. His friend who is 6 years old (Jonah Pournazarian) inherited the rare liver disease. Dylan told his parents that he wanted to raise money for his friend and his parents suggested something small and easy like a lemonade stand. Dylan took offense to this and said that he wanted to do something big and the next day he had an entire book written. The book was called Chocolate Bar because the 7 year old says “chocolate bar” to describe anything awesome. The book was made into 200 copies and sold out in hours raising 6,000 dollars. The family then started to sell tote bags, cellphone cases and in total has raised over 400,000 dollars and won an award that mostly adults win. I found this article extremely uplifting because I know that at 7 years old I would have never thought that I could do something like this and change someone’s life so much I think that it’s awesome.


http://www.newser.com/story/174954/boy-wants-to-help-sick-pal-out-raises-everyone.html