>> i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. happy holidays, welcome to

this eyewitness special on brotherly love. >> we profile great people in the community we start with two little girls saying thanks to the hospital that saved their life. >> ten year old bronwin hanson and they know what it is like to be a kid stuck in the hospital. in 2014, sophia developed serious complications from the flu. >> i had to get surgery. i had to put a tube in through my back into my lung. >> she was terrified, she was in a lot of pain. >> year later bron inches win had brain surge troy repair a blood vest. >> i it was tiring, painful, because i couldn't lift my head. i didn't want to walk, ever. >> the girls didn't know each other but their mom, colleen, and cory, went to the same high school and reconnected through the magic of social media. >> sophia had gotten sick, was in the hospital, and cory

reached out, amazing. >> and the same. when bronwin was sick, colleen had been cleaning laid toy my house, wonderful person. >> and now we are best friends. >> sophia and bronwin are collecting toys, friends and local bits cents have donated dozens and dozens of toys. and amazon wish list of 100 toys sold out. >> then i just put more stuff, we just keep getting from as far away as seattle. >> alabama. >> and maine. >> it is a family affair, they're sisters, helping, too. >> we're hoping that these toys can make kids have a little bit more fun. >> it is like christmas but not for themselves. like they're so excited to be able to come, shop, and bring these gifts to them. >> just a great project from those two little girls.

>> and there is more, take a look at this, they dropped off a truckload of toys, and their mom sent us these photos, they hope to start collecting toys again this spring. how about that? >> and they're not the only children you've met doing great things. >> that's right. i met a havertown girl who believes in the power of words. two words to be exact. she never new her grandfather, former lower merion police detective died before she was born. what did your father tell you about his father, your grandfather? >> so my grandfather always told my dad be nice because he doesn't like bullying and i don't think anybody does. >> no. >> his son, michael maloney, is anna's dad. >> i got that from him. and i passed it on in my way and i used to quiz her, always be nice to everyone. >> so one day i was like dad, why don't i just live nice. sohat's how i came up with the idea. >> with the help of her mom, anna designed these t-shirts

in different colors, with the words live nice. >> oh, it is extra extra large watch are you trying to say, anna? >> her girl, raise money for and tying bullets effort so her parents had few printed for a yard sale this spring. they sold out. they printed more. those sold out, as well. so they kept selling the shirts, $20 each, at school, at festivals, and at local shops. >> and one of her goals is to have somebody wear that shirt in all 50 states. >> $400 has gone to an anti-bullying group. another 400 to a girls youth program. >> how proud is he now looking down on her? you know he is. >> he absolutely is. >> live nice. how do you feel inch snide what does it feel like? >> be nice in anyway that you can. >> all right, this is the shirt right here. and i hear the live nice cheryl is making its way around. >> this shirt has been placed like montana, niagara falls,

iceland, she has 26 states so far and 600, and she has raised $5,000. absolutely amazing. way to go. >> well, few years ago, a bucks county high stylist had special request, they cut the hair after girl in a hospital. >> that's one haircut started a movement. >> we cut the sides super short, really leaving the front nice and long. >> young braydon is getting a mohawk. >> she will look amazing. >> his mom, theresa walsh; getting a haircut, too. she doesn't usually have time for the salon. she and braydon come to philly every three weeks for treatment. she has cysticfibrosis. >> all of my attention goes toward take care o braid glenn this day they brought the salon to them. >> so they think like good 45 minutes, like i'm in a happy place. i don't have to have any needles or any shots or any surgeries. this is happy place. >> christie got the idea in 2012 when she met kayla family friend diagnosed when

neuroblastoma. >> christie had this identify tee come over, cut it shorter, so it would be able to lose. >> she spent gosh an hour or two with kayla. >> it just transformed the room, from a sad hospital room to a party. >> over course of kayla's treatment, christie kept coming, bringing bright bows and ribbons. >> i left that day feeling like i wanted to spread this other families, other kids, who are going through such hard situation. >> her non-profit, mission christie cares, gives free haircuts to patients and families at the ronald mcdonald houses, st. christopher hospital and shop. >> it allows families to just get breath of fresh air, for what they're going through. >> eight other stylists donate their time giving 150 to 200 free haircuts a year. christie will always remember kayla. >> if it weren't for her i wouldn't be able to spread fate hope and love one haircut at a time. such a great idea. and there are other strangers

helping people with serious illness. >> they sure r it can be nely to be sick. so a philadelphia man wanted to help. >> robin scott, of gloucester township, had just returned from a vacation last fall when her doctor gave her the news. >> i still didn't believe her. >> robin breast cancer, as she went through surgery and was preparing for chemotherapy. she found an instagram page called cancer who? its found is her al harris. >> i just don't want to have no, no one with cancer feeling alone or without. >> al, his wife, and other volunteers, did the patient's like robin on their own time bringing cheer sometimes even cake. alan marge i themselves had family members with cancer. >> it is tough. every bit of support is vital. >> i'm like the relief guy. i'm just here to listen, so she can talk to me, i can see what's going on. nothing special, just thereto just listen, just be her ear.

>> celebrating the last treatment. >> yes. >> on this day alan marge i join robin for her last scheduled chemotherapy treatment, at penn medicine virtua cancer program in voorhees. doctor carlos knows how much support can help patients. >> it is very important for her to have somebody that she can lean job when chemo was finished, rob lynn have series of radiation treatments. al will be there. >> like a brother. >> sales of t-shirts, other clothing with the cancer who saying helps fund trips, gifts, and more for cancer patients. >> hopefully we can grow to be a lot bigger and help a lot more people with cancer. >> and how about this? my man al is now doing his cancer who charity full time. >> so amazing when people step out and reach out to cancer patients like that. >> and here is another example, man i met this year made resolution to walk every day, wait until you see what he did along the way. >> so i started walking at

night. i first met paul in the dead of winter. he started walking just to lose some weight. then he found out a former student had cancer. >> i say i wonder what i could do. so i had this idea to do my walks, go to people's houses, collect monday. >> i he told his facebook friends, give me your address and i want to pick up your donation. >> start to get the ball rolling. i set up, so like 9-mile total walk. and i raised over $1,200. >> hey! >> hi, how are you doing? >> paul called it shop around the block. he kept walking and at every house he took a selfie. the money kept coming in. seve's multiplied. by the time our story aired, he had raised $17,000. >> and i only thought i would raise a couple hundred bucks, you know? >> how far can you go with this? >> i don't know. >> turned out 17,000 was just a start. the story spread all over the country. donations came in through his chop fundraising site.

local businesses offered to throw parties to raise money. >> so then i thought okay, 20,000. then people were like, no, you got 50,000. in my mind i'm like no way i'll ever get to 50,000. >> oh, he did. presented a check for $50,000 to chop for their child life department. explains his mondayly go to entertain sick children. >> whether that's arts and crafter, or while getting chemo, paul's donion also go directly to that. >> over 600 donors, 300 some selfies, money from all over the country, so really turned into something pretty special. >> amazing work. well, stay tuned, for more stories, brotherly love. >> you will meet a little girl who can't speak. but who can create art and she's drafting more young artists for her charitable cause. also, a stroll through a train station becomes a walk of generosity for a commuter. and then, a little later on, the pet store that is much

more. that's coming up in this special edition of brotherly

>> welcome back to our special look back at stories of brotherly love. thousands of commuters walk by

the homeless every day. >> a montgomery county woman just couldn't do it. here's what she did instead. >> sweat pants are actually very popular. >> every item of clothing in this room is going to a homeless person. kimberly macintosh got the idea commuting through suburban station. >> bothered me to pass these people, cold, and there has to be something i can do. >> so she started caring as many clothes as she could, and giving them away to the need i, face-to-face. >> and the first woman i gave it to, she had the biggest smile on her face. and my hands were trembling, i was so happy, nervous, excited and didn't know how things would go. after that -- >> when i first got out here in the streets, i had a lot of stuff stolen. she's been helpful to a lot of people out here. >> kimberly, goes by kimmy, started facebook group to ask the other to do the same, and drop off at drop-off locations. boy have people delivered.

coats, hats, gloves and more to hand out to the homeless. she calls it help the homeless people winter project for every day people. >> it will make them smile and feel more warmer for this winter and help them stay health. >> i volunteers such as john long are driving some locations to homeless shelters. >> very rewarding to be able to get that stuff out there. >> a woman kimmy didn't even know, karen, offered to store some in her home. >> it is a worthy cause, and keep the responses coming, because there is a lot of people throughout that we still aren't going to be able to reach. >> that's not discouraging kimmy and the other volunteers to try to reach as many as they can, one person at a time. now, she recently changed jobs so she no longer come glutes but she is still collecting and distributing to the homeless. >> wonderful. now, a bucks county fashion designer inspired her artistic grand ice, featuring the work of disable children.

>> we got to see three of the artist. >> including the little girl who started it all. >> eight year old hazel shaw can't speak or move her body easily. >> she was born miss ago piece of her ninth chromosome. so that has pretty much left her with difficulty walking independently and speaking. >> but with help, she has been learning to paint her colorful artwork caught the eye of her debbie aunt. >> she doesn't have a lot of mobility being able move her hands and finger paint. it was very colorful. >> deb had i an idea. feature hazel's artwork in scarfs. >> this is hazel's painting with her hands. >> 20% of the sale price of each of hazel's scarfs is going to a fund called hazel's hope. raising money foreplay grounds for disable children, and research in to treatment. the scarfs proved so popular, debbie asked for more disable children to smith their art. >> i immediately thought o adam's art, like we've got to

try this. >> one of the first chosen was by 11 year old adam of gloucester township. he has autism. his mom wendy stein showed off the final result. >> and it is just gorgeous. i love how vibrant it is. >> purple, blue, yellow, green, orange, red and white. >> another scarf is by wendy's 13 year olson, nicholas, who has as burger's. >> then i did a blue backgrounds, with watercolors. and then the yellow stars, that the yellow kind of like faded off of the stars into the backgrounds. >> just such a great cause. and we've received so much help from other people. so it is great to pay it forward and be able to help out someone else. >> they hope this is just the beginning of kids helping kids. >> we hope to help a lot of kids make life a little bit easier. >> ya, what beautiful work that is. >> and they are up to 11 young artists, raided more than $3,000. >> well, there is more coming up in this special "eyewitness

news" edition of brotherly love. >> the people behind this pet store are doing more than selling dog and cat treats. also, a cool library that was almost lost now it's been found again. and little later one of these guys smiling. the story behind that, that spread all over the country. the story behind that, that spread all over the country. >> ♪ (male #1) it's a little something i've done every night since i was a kid, empty my pocket change into this old jar. it's never much, just what's left after i break a dollar. and i never thought i could get quality life insurance with my spare change. neither did i. until i saw a commercial for the colonial penn program. imagine people our age getting life insurance at such an affordable rate. it's true. if you're 50 to 85, you can get guaranteed acceptance life insurance through the colonial penn program for less than 35 cents a day, just $9.95 a month.

there's no medical exam and no health questions. you know, the average cost of a funeral is over $8,300. now that's a big burden to leave your loved ones. as long as you're 50 to 85, you cannot be turned down because of your health. your premium never goes up and your benefit never goes down due to age. plus, your coverage builds cash value over time. call now for free information and a free gift. all i did was make a phone call and all of my questions about the colonial penn program were answered. it couldn't have been any easier and we both got the coverage we should have had for years now. mm-hm, with change to spare. (laughing) (colonial penn jingle)

>> welcome back to our special look back at stories of brotherly love. you know, i spent a lot of time in the school library when i was a kid. >> i did too. mom and dad wouldn't let me play basketball and run track if i didn't. so this story was extra nice. call it lost and found at the library. >> you're going to go back and meet. >> gentle traffic cop, guiding five and six year old to story time at john b kelly elementary school. >> anybody know what a pig sty is? >> that's john, retired educator and musician, who went to philly public schools back when libraries were standard. >> that world open the world up to me, i was able to do things, find out things, i wouldn't have, had i not had the experience of reading. >> kelly elementary had hadn't a librarian for two years, when the retired librarian, offered to get it back up and running. >> sort of become a dumping grounds. there were boxes all around.

and just a lot of dusty books. >> but lot of those books were great for kids and in good condition. they got rid of out-dated books, cleaned up the good ones, got them laminated free, thanks to friendly staples manager. they added signs to the shelves, and posted colorful artwork on the wall. >> they did such a great job in organizing the books in various genre's, great levels, interest. >> and they stuck around, every weekday, volunteers hold library classes. >> they come to read allowed, and read allowed, then they get to choose a book for the next week. >> you like pigs? oh, that's cute. >> watching the excitement of kids, as they encounter books, and as they hear stories, phenominal thing to see and to be a part of. >> they hope to inspire more volunteer-run school libraries, and get books back where they belong. >> i love books, too.

this next story is also all about learning. >> yes, that's so true. disable young adults are getting job training in a pet store with the help of volunteers and parents. >> alicia makes change for a customer at pride paw's in marlton, pet supply store. the employees here have special needs. many have age of high school. their first john my the working world, explains cherokee high school teacher kate malone. >> i help building their resume, becoming more employable. >> everyone learns differently here. >> the inventory rivals any other pet store. >> we sell dog biscuits, we silicate nip, cat collars. >> michael hoffman shows off the hand made cards at the counter in the back of the employee are weighing and bagging dog biscuits they bake themselves. >> peanut butter. then there is oatmeal peanut

butter and sweet treats. >> pam schroeder was one of the co-founders, her daughter nicole who has epilepsy is developing skills like sewing bandana's. >> to gain confidence so that she can maybe some day go out and work outside of proud paw's. >> people and pets have embraced the shop. >> they come in here, they love it, they love the fact that there are homemade treats. they love the fact that these kids are pure at heart. >> the young people go through 200 hours every training, then they make minimum wage. in the last six years about 50 young people have been through the program. >> amph our participants have moved onto work in their community. they work at places like hope depo, different restaurants, hair salons. >> and every time one of these young people moved on, another can come in. >> and there is more coming up next in this special "eyewitness news" edition of brotherly love. >> something as simple as a

bike means the worlds to this man. so, when his bike disappeared, some savior rolled in. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

welcome back to our "eyewitness news" special brotherly love. >> this next story, started with a routine crime, a stolen bike. >> where police did next, touched people all across the country. >> wayne stevens, bikes every day, even in snow. >> he's 29, mentally he's about eight. >> he's also deaf and has multiple problems. show his bike was stole ten hit hard.

sergeant, one of the pa palmyra police officers, who responded. >> wayne was visibly upset, sitting on the steps, his hands clenched. >> he said tall man stole my bike and he went that way. >> to see the look on his face, it was heart breaking. i was furious, to say the least. >> so sergeant and his fellow responding officer patrolman alex hubble surprised wayne with a brand new bike. >> it wasriceless. it really was. he was so happy. >> although he's deaf, he does use his ear phones, gets in, rides with no hands, you can tell he really gets into it and enjoys it. >> the happy moment captured in a photo has been shared around the country. >> they wanted no recognition at all. >> chief scott pearlman is snot surprised his officers good deeds inspired so many. >> it does help people, the good things that we do. >> wow, words can't describe the joy that i see in him and the pride that i have for our officers. >> they made his world. they put a smile back on his face. and i can't thank him enough.

>> and we hope you enjoyed this special look at the very special people filling the worlds with brotherly love. i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. thank you for joining us. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >>

byron allen, coming to you from entertainmentstudios.com. this is "the american athlete". get ready to hang out with some of the world's greatest sports superstars. sammy sosa. >> somebody give me a check! momma, sammy just showed me how to bat! >> jeff burton. >> you've always got to pay attention to what your car is doing. yo