{"id":141462,"date":"2020-12-24T22:59:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T19:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meditating-kid-raises-over-28000-for-toys-for-homeless\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T22:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T19:59:54","slug":"meditating-kid-raises-over-28000-for-toys-for-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meditating-kid-raises-over-28000-for-toys-for-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meditating kid raises over $28,000 for toys for homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Meditating kid raises over $28,000 for toys for homeless<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Peace on Earth and goodwill toward kids are kicking off in Brooklyn, thanks to a 5-year-old meditating humanitarian.<\/p>\n

Mini meditation master Bond Hill raised more than $28,000 towards Christmas toys\u00a0for less fortunate\u00a0children of New York City by livestreaming his over 20-minute meditation Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just didn\u2019t want the kids to be sad on Christmas,\u201d Bond told The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s not fair that some kids get toys and other kids don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bond has meditated every day since he was 18 months old, courtesy of his mom\u2019s own devotion to Zen energy. <\/p>\n

For his charitable meditation marathon, however, the precocious kindergartener quadrupled his normal mindfulness moments, going introspective for a full 24 minutes as a tribute to late Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 #24, Kobe Bryant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cKobe was really good,\u201d Bond told The Post of his favorite NBA player. \u201cAnd he meditated, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bond initially set out to amass a much more humble donation of $2,000 for the Coalition for the Homeless<\/a> holiday toy drive through his GoFundMe campaign<\/a>, but raised double that amount in just 24 hours.<\/p>\n

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Treis, Sapp<\/a>hira and Bond Hill<\/figcaption>
Treis Hill \/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the support of his father, Treis Hill, 42, and mother, Sapphira, 45, Bond\u2019s philanthropic efforts have garnered a whopping $28,509.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur pride is through the roof,\u201d Sapphira told The Post. \u201cJust watching him complete the challenge showed us how far he\u2019s willing to push himself to support a good cause. It was the first time he ever [meditated] that long. We were so amazed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many kids, Bond was busy building up a lengthy Christmas wish list \u2014 his featuring a basketball hoop, a race car, and a dirt bike \u2014 ahead of the holiday season. However, the tiny altruist\u2019s demands for Santa were put on hold once he learned other children would not receive any gifts this year<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHis Christmas wish list got long,\u201d Treis said. \u201cWe said that was enough toys, especially when other kids don\u2019t have toys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tapping into a level of selflessness far beyond his years, Bond asked his dad, \u201cWhy don\u2019t I try to meditate for charity? I could try to do my longest time ever, 15 or 20 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus began his journey to manifest money through mindfulness.<\/p>\n

Bond\u2019s benevolence enabled the Coalition for the Homeless to gift toys to the 19,000 home-insecure children living in New York City shelters.<\/p>\n

\u201cKids in shelters have already experienced the trauma and shame of becoming homeless,\u201d said Sarah Murphy, director of development at the Coalition for the Homeless. \u201cThe toy drive feels like it means a little more this year in the face of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think of a child sitting still for 20 minutes, let alone meditating, it\u2019s pretty remarkable,\u201d Murphy added. \u201cIt just shows the compassion of young people in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bond Hill\u2019s selfless gesture raised more than $28,000.<\/figcaption>
Treis Hill \/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bond and his parents plan to make media<\/a>ting for charity an annual Christmas tradition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully this will extend into the classrooms and into more people\u2019s homes,\u201d Sapphira told The Post. \u201cSo that at the end of the day, we can instill [the importance of meditation and giving back] into this generation. Then, our future looks a little bit brighter.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Meditating kid raises over $28,000 for toys for homeless” Peace on Earth and goodwill toward kids are kicking off in Brooklyn, thanks to a 5-year-old meditating humanitarian. Mini meditation master Bond Hill raised more than $28,000 towards Christmas toys\u00a0for less fortunate\u00a0children of New York City by livestreaming his over 20-minute meditation Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cI just didn\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/meditating-kid-612371.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[87636,4950,28433,14580,66,79548,73250,78475,68,76829,3418,79347,4953],"class_list":["post-141462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-24-20","tag-brooklyn","tag-charity","tag-children","tag-christmas","tag-gifts","tag-gofundme","tag-holiday-gifts","tag-holidays","tag-live-stream","tag-love","tag-meditation","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}