It’s hard to find someone who’s willing to give up every last penny they’ve ever saved to help someone else, yet when 4-year-old Camden Hand heard one of the teachers at his pre-school was having trouble paying for her cancer treatment, he didn’t think twice to give everything he had.
Over the years, Camden has been dropping in all of his birthday money and loose change into a piggy bank, and managed to save up $105.15. When he heard Betty Payne, one of the teachers at the Good Samaritan Academy preschool in Tallahassee, Florida, was sick with stage 3 lung cancer and struggling to pay the health insurance deductable for her treatments, he got his piggy bank out and asked for dad’s help opening it up.
“He started dumping it out onto the table and he looked up at me and said, ‘How much does Ms. Betty need?'” mom Christie Hand said. “And I said she needs an awful lot, and he said, ‘I have a lot here. She can have it.’ He knew someone was in need and he thought he could help and that was that.”
After counting all the money, Camden put every last cent in a plastic bag and brought it in to school to donate.
“I couldn’t help but to cry,” Payne said. “That this kid, he gave up everything he had for me. That showed me he had a lot of love and goodness in his heart. You don’t find too many kids who want to give up their money.”
So far, 100 families from the school have raised $2,400 for treatments and other expenses, and have even started a Go Fund Me donation page in her honor.
Can you believe this selfless little boy was willing to give every last penny away to help his sick teacher pay for her cancer treatment?
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