A young boy is being hailed as a hero on social media for making an out of pocket donation to a children’s hospital in Ohio.
Diesel Pippert from Huron County used his livestock premiums from the Huron County Fair to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The seventh-grader at Western Reserve Schools in Collins, donated all of his livestock premiums from the fair’s large animal sale to the children’s hospital to help fight cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Western Reserve School said that he had donated an amount of $15,000 dollars to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It took to Facebook to praise Diesel for his generous donation writing that Diesel is a hero and that he “should be an example to us all.”
Good afternoon, Western Reserve!
A young man lives amongst us who should be an example to us all. WR 7th grader Diesel…
Posted by Western Reserve Schools on Saturday, August 17, 2019
With his generous donation, Diesel will help researchers find out cures for childhood cancer and other diseases affecting children all over the world. Diesel has gone above and beyond his age to do this amazing act of kindness, he is truly a blessing to the whole world.
