Pay it Forward Stories
One of TrikleTrade’s best pay it forward stories were initiated by children. In 2012, a nonprofit for girls called The Girls Way posted a pay it forward request on the TrikleTrade platform for a computer. Another anonymous TrikleTrade member responded to their post by donating a laptop a week later. How did the girls from the after-school program repay their donor? By paying it forward to another nonprofit, Watsons Children Shelter. The shelter needed blankets for the children entering their program. Blankets at Watsons are the first item of comfort a child receives when they enter their doors and it’s the only item they take with them once they are placed in good homes. The hope is to give the children something warm, loving, and stable. Immediately the kids from the Girls Way hand-make blankets for the children. A few weeks later over 10 blankets were donated to Watsons. These girls proved, it doesn’t matter how old you are, how much you have, how much t