[VIDEO] What Strangers Do For This Lonely Boy In The Freezing Cold Will Warm Your Heart
For those who consider humanity a lost cause, consider this: At least we live in a world where strangers will still give a freezing child a coat. So we've got that going for us.
By Sadho Ram — 22 Feb 2014, 01:52 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
This 11-year-old boy was filmed as he sat shivering without a coat at a bus stop in Oslo, Norway. The actions of people who saw his discomfort will bring a smile to even the most jaded souls.
This young woman, who sat next to the boy and notices him rubbing his arms, immediately asks him: 'Don't you have a jacket?' He replies that it was stolen.
And the next thing she does is takes off her own jacket and wraps it around the freezing boy
Later, another older woman at first gives him her scarf, then wraps him in her large padded jacket
But before you wonder about the safety of the boy in that freezing snow, it's a filmed experiment in Norway, and the jacketless child actor was instructed to sit at a bus stop and look cold
Filmmakers from SOS Children's Villages, a charity that works to help abandoned, displaced and orphaned children, captured hidden footage of adults approaching the shivering child.
yahoo.comIn each case, the adult offers to help the kid with a jacket, gloves or a scarf. That's not exactly news, and it would be depressing if the adults didn't offer to help.
dailymail.co.ukBut that's kind of the point. The charity hopes to inspire people to help the children of Syria, at least a million of whom have been displaced, with many living outdoors. The argument: If you'd help a freezing kid at a bus stop, why not help a child just as needy but on the other side of the globe?
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