Six-Year-Old Girl Praised for Giving Her Allowance to Homeless Man

A six-year-old girl has been praised for giving a crying homeless man her allowance so he could buy food.

Janiyah Lewis, from Norfolk, Virginia in the US, was out shopping with her mother, Kenyatta, when she noticed the man and told him to go home, but the man said he did not have a home. So, Janiyah gave the man her allowance and her drink and suggested he go to McDonald’s to get some food.

Her mother, Kenyatta, did not let that moment pass and instantly snapped a photo of her daughter and the homeless man and posted it on Facebook, which has since gained more than 177,000 shares. She wrote a caption alongside the photo, recounting her daughter’s kind gesture.

She said that earlier this month, as she and Janiyah were leaving a beauty store, Janiyah spotted the man sitting and crying outside the store and she asked her, “Did you see that man crying? What’s wrong with him?” Then Kenyatta answered, “Maybe he’s just sad.”

Then, Janiyah walked over to him and said, “Hi sir be happy it’s a nice day it’s not raining. Are you hot? Why don’t you go home the ground is dirty?”, but the man said he didn’t have a home.

“She looked at him with the saddest face and goes “so that means you’re homeless. So you have no food because you have no refrigerator.” She gave him a few dollars out of her purse and her drink and said, “Please go eat. It would make me happy. I like McDonald’s you should go there.” I could tell she made his day,” she wrote.

Suddenly, Kenyatta said two more people came up and gave money as well.

“A 6-year-old lead [sic] by example this morning. AWESOME!” she wrote.

When Kenyatta asked the man why he was homeless, he explained that his trailer burnt down and he lost everything including his wife.

“Kids see no color and that’s exactly how it should be. It’s not just a statement saying that the children are our future, it’s a FACT. That gives me a little more hope for the world,” Kenyatta wrote.

Now, Kenyatta has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for food and clothing for homeless people in Hampton Roads.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk