Official Kids Mag

May 2019

Official Kids Mag is specifically written for kids ages 5 to 12. It contains activities and stories ranging from kid heroes, cooking, gardening, STEAM, education, fun facts and much more every month.

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Ruby Kate Chitsey started a movement that's taken the world by storm—or you could say, by heart. It's called Three Wishes for Ruby's Residents. The amazing 11-year-old girl from Harrison, Arkansas wants to do good, and she's raised nearly $250,000 through her GoFundMe campaign and charity Facebook page to bring hope, joy and practical help to low-income residents in nursing homes. Ruby's mom, Amanda, is a nurse practitioner who works in five nursing homes in and around Harrison, and Ruby often goes with her on weekends. Many of the elderly residents in those facilities don't have any family or visitors. They can live in those homes because of a government program called Medicaid that provides meals and basic care, but only $40 a month for anything else. Forty dollars isn't very much money if you need a haircut or a cell phone or fresh fruit or someone to bring your pet in for a visit. That's where Ruby stepped in. She noticed a patient named Pearl staring out the exit doors at a dog being led on a leash by a woman to a car in the parking lot. Ruby asked her about it, and Pearl said it was her dog that she'd had for some 12 years. The lady had brought the dog for a visit, and Pearl watched her, not knowing when she'd ever see her pet again. "Pearl's face was so sad," Ruby explained in her GoFundMe. "I thought of all the things in this world Pearl could have, she would probably just ask for more visits with her dog. I know it costs $12 for a pet sitter visit. I'm 11, and I have enough money saved in my piggy bank to get Pearl a few visits with her dog." And that's how "Three Wishes" began. Ruby started going around to the different residents to ask, "If you could have any three things, what would you want?" Ruby was surprised at their answers. "I thought people would say money, houses, a Lamborghini," she told CBS News, but instead they wanted simple things like strawberries, pants that fit, Cheetos, a phone. Ruby and her mom have used the donated funds to buy everything from pillows to books to Happy Meals. Ruby with Pearl 14 • Off icialKidsMag.com MAY 2019

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