11 Year Old Girl Raises $80,000 For The Gulf Bird Rescue Efforts

How cool is this? :applause:



"Olivia Bouler doesn’t have time for anything else these days except to draw and paint. But that’s OK for the artistic fifth-grader, because everything she does is for the birds.

The Islip, N.Y., girl, who turns 11 on Friday, has raised an estimated $80,000 by sending her sketches and paintings of birds to people who donate to organizations helping with relief efforts in the Gulf of Mexico spill disaster.

“I do some in the mornings and some in the afternoons, and weekends are really the time for me get cracking at them,” Olivia told msnbc.com on Thursday in a telephone interview as she and her parents were headed to the Gulf for a visit.

Olivia came up with the idea to help birds in the Gulf four days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the nation’s worst oil spill. Olivia's father's family grew up in Alabama, and she has spent vacations in the Gulf...."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37620887/ns/us_news-giving/

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Blessings to her and her family--and especially the birds she is striving to save.

It was low tide, and as far as the eye could see, the shoreline was littered with stranded fish. The little boy picked one up and tossed it back into the ocean.

The old man shrugged. "What difference does it make? There has to be millions of them out here."

The little boy pointed to where he threw and said, "It makes a difference to that one."

I'm going to have to check out her drawings and make a donation.

She said during the interview that she balled her eyes out when she saw what is happening to the wildlife in the Gulf.

:thumbsup: