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Phoenix Scott, 9, wants to help those in need.

When most nine year olds get money for their birthday, their first thought is all of the things they are going to buy.

For Phoenix Scott, his first thought was how he could give it to the less fortunate in Vernon.

His mom, Danielle Scott, said when Phoenix was seven, he and his big brother, Keegan Jones, handed out 50 brown bag lunches and bottles of water to the less fortunate at Linear Park.

Phoenix also went to Polson Park and handed out roses with inspirational sayings to random people.

“Phoenix has always loved to do nice things for people and doing random acts of kindness has become a regular thing for him,” Danielle said. “He is just a sweet little nine-year-old boy who wants to help everyone. He just wants people to be happy.”

Because Phoenix wants to keep helping others in need, Danielle started a GoFundMe page to raise money for his efforts.

The goal is to raise $1,000 – a number that Danielle said they chose for no particular reason – which will mark the beginning of Phoenix's Random Act of Kindness Project.

“I am hoping to raise enough money that Phoenix will be able to do weekly random acts of kindness. He will get to chose who he donates to and how the money will be given away. Being a single working mother who also goes to school full time, I am not able to help Phoenix financially with his desire to help people as much as I would like,” said Danielle.

“He hopes that by doing this it will inspire more people to do nice things for others. Any support to help Phoenix reach his goal would be amazing. Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.”

Phoenix will decide where they money will go and people can follow his progress on a Facebook page made by Danielle.