Most 8-year-old girls would want to spend their birthdays with their friends unwrapping all their new gifts. However, this charitable girl decided to tie winter coats to the street poles of Halifax to help the homeless prepare for the brutal Canadian winter that’s coming up.
Tara Smith-Atkins, her eight-year-old daughter, and seven of her friends worked for weeks collecting warm winter gear to hang up for the homeless to claim. Finally, on Smith-Atkin’s daughter’s birthday, the group set out on the Halifax’s street, and spent the whole day distributing everything they managed to collect.
The family spent a few weeks preparing by gathering coats and other winter gear from the community.
“I am not lost. If you are stuck out in the cold, please take me to keep warm!”
“They definitely learned the importance of it,” Smith Atkins said.
“When we got back in the car after an hour on the street, they were all freezing and crying for the heater to be on and complaining because they were cold. And they were bundled up,” Smith-Atkins told CBC.
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[Featured image credit: Tara Smith-Atkins]