By Penny Kmitt, WBZ-TV
WORCESTER – A 12-year-old boy in central Massachusetts is on a mission to make sure every child has a happy Easter by making baskets for kids living in shelters.
Four years ago, Josh Sowden of Worcester started his “Easter baskets for the homeless” campaign after visiting his aunt at a homeless shelter.
“We started to talk about how we could help her with my nephew, who was little at the time, and Josh said we should buy him an Easter basket,” Josh’s stepmother, Crystal Sowden, told WBZ-TV. “And then he asked us if the other kids were getting Easter baskets.”
“We found out that almost every kid in there didn’t have an Easter,” Josh said, “So we were like, ‘Oh my God, how can we help out?'”
With the help of Facebook, Josh constructed and donated 34 Easter baskets. But he didn’t stop there.
“It wasn’t a one-year thing,” said Josh’s dad, Nickolas Sowden. “The year after he asked, ‘Are we going to do it again?'”