This week, 52 Lives visited Year 4 at Weston Green School in Thames Ditton to run our first ever School Kindness Workshop. The workshop involved an interactive presentation about the benefits of kindness, before the children were tasked with helping to spread kindness and change a young girl's life.

We told the children all about Izzie, a 9 year old girl form Hastings. 

Before Izzie was born, she had fits. They don't know what caused it, but it led to her being born with diplegia cerebral palsy. This means she can't walk without a walking frame and uses a wheelchair when she gets too tired. She also has a right sided weakness, bladder and bowel problems. Izzie spends a lot of time fundraising for charities and for children with disabilities, and she helps to raise awareness of the difficulties facing families of disabled children - all at just 9 years of age. She is incredible. 

Izzie recently had to have major orthopaedic surgery to her legs and feet and is working hard to get walking again. When we told the children at Weston Green School about Izzie, they decided they wanted to do something to let her know they think she's amazing, and to encourage her to keep working hard to get walking again.