Your “Daily Dose of Uplift” for January 19th:
Everyday after school, Jayden Sutton, a high school senior, walked from his campus to his job at a restaurant and then back home. It was roughly a seven-mile trek on foot.
He’ll have to walk to work no more after Lavonda Wright Myers gifted him a new car.
One rainy day, Myers saw Sutton high-tailing to work in fear he was going to be late.
“He said, ‘ma’m could you give me a ride please?’ I told him I could take him as far as I was going,” Myers said. “I began to create small talk along the way. It was revealed to me that his name was Jayden, 12th grader, works 40 hours a week, walks 5 miles to work everyday immediately after school, gets off at 10:30pm at night and walks back home another 5 miles if co-workers don’t offer a ride.”
She was moved to tears by his story and started a GoFundMe campaign in effort to get him a car. She received over $9,000 from nearly 200 donors.
Her comment on getting Sutton the car made me smile:
“He was smiling in good spirit and that’s a child worth blessing,” she told Fox News.
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