A 12-year-old North Carolina girl rescued 114 stuffed animals from thrift stores; she repaired every one by hand and donated them to children who lost their homes in fire
A trip to a thrift store can often end with an impulse purchase or two, but for one 12-year-old girl in North Carolina, finding discarded stuffed animals became the beginning of a much bigger mission. Instead of seeing worn-out toys as things that had reached the end of their lives, the young girl saw something…