Warner Robins boy wants donations, not gifts, to help cancer patients

“It’s just a very generous thing for a 7-year-old boy to want to help other people,” says Judy Mason the founder of Georgia Cancer Friends Foundation, Inc.

Langston Grice is a second grader at Lake Joy Primary School second grader.  He is foregoing his birthday gifts to donate money to her foundation.  Langston admits he has been getting his share of peer pressure from his classmates.

“They say ‘Why you [sic] not getting presents,'” recalls Langston. “I said, ‘Because I want to help others and I don’t need the presents.'”

Langston met Mason at her store, Color Me Pink, in Warner Robins.  She says her foundation raised nearly $6,000 last year and they could use additional cash.

“We’re based on donations, we have a donor closet here that we give out items, and give out casseroles for free to people going through treatment,” adds Mason.

The organization is very close to Langston’s heart.  His grandmother, 56-year-old Evelyn Mickles, is a breast cancer survivor.  He hopes his contributions will make a lasting impact.

“So they can find a treatment,” Langston continues.

His parents, Allegra and Jeremy, say they are proud of their son for wanting to help a good cause.

“Each year he would get birthday gifts and they would sit in a corner for weeks, and weeks, and he wasn’t all that pressed about opening them,” explained Allegra Grice. “I said let’s use those funds that people are using towards gifts, let’s do something to better utilize that money.”

“They’re seeing the world as a place where people are needed to step in and provide assistance to other people,”  Jeremy Grice tells 41NBC.

Mason says fundraising is their only hope of giving more cancer patients a fighting chance.

“It’s a very special thing and he’s going to end up helping someone in turn from him raising money,” adds Mason.

Langston has already raised more than $150.  He hopes to get more donations at his birthday party, which is on Saturday.