Cosette, an eight-year-old, is starting a nonprofit organization to feed starving children in Africa. Here is Cosette’s story:
“Mom and I were watching TV and I saw a show about children that were dying from not having food and being left alone with no one to take care of them. Some of the children were less than a year old. They were crying so much and hungry and dirty with no one to take care of them, just left in places they could get hurt and sometimes for days and days.
“It made me feel sad and I wanted to help these children get food, water, love, and medicine. I knew I needed money to do this because these children live in Africa and I can’t go and visit them but the show said
that there are people there that can care for them and get them better and then they can be adopted by a family that would love them.
“I started thinking…
“I could sell my old clothes that Mom has kept since I was a baby and send the money. So I asked my brother if he could help me build a closet to hang the clothes and then we would have to find a place for the closet.
I went to Celebrity Bound, a new clothing boutique in downtown Pleasanton to ask the owner, Natalie Nunn, what she thought of my idea and she said I could put my closet in her store.
“And that is how Cozy’s Closet got started!”
