Natalia Marsh-Welton has brain cancer, but she’s much more concerned about helping the homeless stay warm during this bitter winter. Natalia, who has endured chemotherapy told WLWT, “I am cold all of the time. Imagine how cold people without homes must be.”
That’s why the 10-year-old asked the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help her deliver blankets and soup to Cincinnati’s Drop-Inn Center. And it wasn’t just any soup, either. The foundation had arranged for Natalia to make the soup with renowned chef Jean-Robert de Cavel. Together they named the brew, “Chef Natalia’s Soup of Love.”
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Amazingly, the Cincinnati girl’s act of kindness has already inspired others all the way in Louisville, Ky. As WDRB reports, Sullivan University dean Keith Lerme and his students cooked up 60 gallons of Natalia’s soup and delivered it to their city’s Wayside Christian Mission homeless shelter. Thanks to Natalia, we’re fighting hunger and homelessness one warm bowl of soup at a time.
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This Dying Girl’s ‘Make-a-Wish’ Was to Help Her Community
Jayci Glover, a 13-year-old from Kanab, Utah, is trying to live the best life she can. The teenager, who has a rare form of terminal lymphoma, was granted a wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. But as Yahoo News reports, the girl with the big heart didn’t want a trip to Disneyland or the chance to meet a celebrity. Instead, Jayci asked the foundation to make a donation to her high school.
Thanks to Jayci, Kanab High School was presented with a check for $7,500 that will go towards a new scoreboard for the gym. According to the report, the boys basketball team wore shirts that read “Fight Like Jayci” and each boy gave her a rose and a hug or kiss for her generosity.
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As you can see in the touching video from KSL above, earlier this month Jayci was given a hero’s welcome after leaving the hospital in Salt Lake City. Hundreds of people lined up with posters and cheered for the brave girl, who has endured countless rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. Doctors feared that she wouldn’t survive the five hour drive back to her home town but she’s now comfortably resting and spending time with friends and family.
Jayci’s mother, Heather, recently wrote on the family’s fundraising site that while the disease has been taking over her daughter’s body at a rapid pace, Jayci has remained positive and strong. “She never let cancer into her spirit. Jayci has cancer, cancer does not now and never will have Jayci,” she wrote. “We are the luckiest parents in the world to get to call her our daughter. She has taught us so much and we are so proud of her.” This generous girl can teach the rest of us all a little something, too.