7-Year-Old Raises $160,000

Boy Riding For Haiti

One energetic little boy who is a 7-year-old raises $160,000 towards relief efforts in Haiti.

British boy Charlie Simpson was so upset by the devastating images of Haiti’s deadly earthquake that he asked his mother if she could help him set up a sponsored bicycle ride around his local park in west London. Charlie originally hoped to raise 500 pounds ($800) for UNICEF’s Haiti appeal with Sunday’s 5-mile (8-kilometer) bike ride, but his Internet page was flooded with donations. He raised nearly 50,000 pounds in a single day and money is still flooding in after Charlie’s story was splashed on the front page of Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper Monday. His mother Leonora Simpson says she can’t believe the public response.