17-Year-Old With Rare Condition Performs Acts Of Kindness To Raise Money To Help Disadvantaged Kids

“A young lad from Staffordshire who was disappointed not to be in contact with his friends during lockdown decided to raise a bit of cash by performing some pretty incredible acts of kindness.

Those acts included — but aren’t limited to — feeding around 600 people by collecting pumpkins left over from Halloween, giving out hundreds of packets of Nice biscuits to people so that they would ‘have a nice day’ and buying extra lottery tickets and scratch cards to give to random strangers at the shops.

Now, after recognition from the royal family and the Prime Minister, 17-year-old Sebbie Hall wants to raise £10,000 ($13,000) ahead of World Kindness Day this Friday (13 November).

The money will provide communication aids and access to the arts for disabled and disadvantaged children struggling with loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The teenager has set up a JustGiving page to help him reach that goal, and has already started distributing some of his cash to worthy causes close to his heart.

Sebbie was diagnosed with a rare chromosome anomaly as a baby, and is one of only around 50 people in the world with his condition.

When the first lockdown hit, he was disappointed not to be in regular contact with one of his mates because they didn’t own a mobile phone or tablet.

So, after he offered to simply buy one himself out of his savings, his mum convinced him to start raising money for loads of people, and he decided to do it just by being nice.

Sebbie started by agreeing to do one hundred acts of kindness in 10 days, but has since developed a taste for it, and has now raised over £5,000 ($6,600).

That’s more than halfway to his goal.

His mum Ashley told LADbible: ‘It has made him realise how it makes other people feel when you’re nice to them’

‘Basically, all of his life people have done things for him, and suddenly because he decided he was going to help other people and do things for them, he carried on and now he’s done about 400 [acts of kindness].’

As we’ve mentioned, Sebbie has performed a wide variety of acts, but his mum reckons that his distribution of Nice biscuits — often to key workers and emergency services — has been particularly impactful.

She told us: ‘The Nice biscuits have made so many people smile. He’s used his money and his savings, and what he wants to do is use it to raise this money.’”

View the whole story here: https://www.ladbible.com/news/daily-ladness-17yo-fundraising-for-disabled-children-by-performing-acts-of-kindness-20201110

Originally published at https://www.focusonthegoodnews.com on November 14, 2020.