ATLANTA – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has created a $200 million fund and formed a partnership with Mercer University School of Medicine to bolster rural healthcare for the youngest Georgians.
A 7-year-old s wish has come true | Family and Relations nny360.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nny360.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Credit: Brittany Lord
A 7-year-old Arkansas girl’s Christmas wish has been granted early, thanks to the internet and a special toy manufacturer.
Last year, Vivian Lord’s letter to various toy companies asking them to design a female version of the iconic Green Army Men figurines went viral. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
Following You ll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
“Why do you not make girl army men[?],” Vivian wrote. “My friend’s mom is in the Army to[o] so why don’t you make them to[o]?”
Toymaker answers girl s wish for female army toy soldiers
15 Dec, 2020 09:25 PM
3 minutes to read
One young girl took action when she wasn t happy with the lack of female representation in toys. Photo / 123RF
One young girl took action when she wasn t happy with the lack of female representation in toys. Photo / 123RF
NZ Herald
When Vivian Lord won a set of plastic green army men she was happy and thankful . Vivian was very excited to have the toy in hand, her mother Brittany Lord told Good Morning America.
However, she wasn t very happy when she realised all the figurines were in the set were male.
A Girl Asked Toy Companies To Make Green Army Women, And One Actually Did
Vivian Lord asked toymakers why the iconic toy soldiers weren’t available as women and BMC Toys made the nonexistent figurines a reality.
ByJohanna Silver
BMC PLASTIC ARMY WOMEN | bmctoys.com
BMC PLASTIC ARMY WOMEN | bmctoys.com
The iconic Green Army Men figurines will now be available in another version as women, thanks to a request from a 7-year-old girl in Little Rock, Arkansas.
When Vivian Lord, then 6, won a set of plastic green Army men from an arcade, she questioned why none of the figurines were women. She then sent a letter in 2019 to several toymakers asking them to make the iconic toy figurines available in her gender.