Maryland Boy, 7, Uses $600 Savings On COVID-19 Care Packages

Cavanaugh Bell, 7, of Gaitherburg, Maryland used his own hard-earned savings to put together care packages amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bell, a first grader, spent $600 that he had saved from two birthdays and three Christmases to assemble 65 "COVID-19 Carepacks" and 31 hot meals from a local restaurant, Buca Di Beppo, to distribute to elderly residents and to help the local businesses that were affected when Gov. Larry Hogan shut down restaurants on Monday, Fox News reported.

He filled shopping carts with food and a bottle of bleach which he handed out to seniors and on Thursday, he helped feed 90 students in need.

Bell became a philanthropist and an anti-bullying activist after he was bullied to the point of acquiring suicidal thoughts when he was just five years old.

His mother encouraged him to turn the experience into something positive which led to him starting a non-profit movement called "Cool and Dope" with the goal to "eradicate all bullying and youth suicide through political and social action by his 18th birthday on Nov. 20, 2030."

He gave a TEDX Youth Talk and had the city of Gaitehrsburg dedicate February 21 as Bullying Awareness Day in honor of 8-year-old Gabriel Taye from Ohio who was bullied to the point of committing suicide in 2017.

His county also designated October as Bullying Prevention Month and this October, he hopes to lead the Anti-Bullying Rally in Washington, D.C.