7-Year-Old Raises $22,000 for Local Children’s Hospital Making Bracelets
One Chicago seven-year-old is on her way to becoming one of the world’s youngest entrepreneurs. Like many girls her age, Hayley Orlinsky has a knack for making bracelets, and she’s using her skills to raise thousands of dollars for Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, a nationally ranked non-profit pediatric hospital, the very same facility where she was treated when she was first born.
It’s her way of giving back to the many brave men and women fighting to keep her community safe.
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A little girl sells friendship bracelets to give back to the hospital where she stayed when she was born. She has raised over $23,000, which she gave to the hospital to inspire others.
According to the New York Times, Hayley Orlinsky was a patient in the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s Hospital NICU when she was young. She is giving back to the hospital seven years after she had stayed there.
The little girl makes rubber friendship bracelets then sell them to earn money. She uses the money to buy PPE for frontline workers and the patients families.
7-year-old s bracelet making raises $20,000 for hospital pandemic gear By: CNN
By Caralyn Ryan, CNN (CNN) Hayley Orlinsky wanted to raise $200 for Chicago s Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children s hospital by making colorful rubber band bracelets.
A few months and more than 8,000 bracelets later, Hayley, 7, has raised more than $20,000, helping the hospital purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) and support research efforts.
The Chicago second grader began the project with an apparent knack for entrepreneurship she sold the most cookies in her Girl Scout troop last year and a desire to spread kindness in response to bullies who made fun of her height.