7-Year-Old Boy Donates Trucks Full of COVID-19 Supplies to South Dakota Reservation

7-Year-Old Boy Donates trucks Full of Covid-19 Supplies to South Dakota Reservation...

Cavanaugh Bell is not your ordinary second-grader.

While most of his peers spent their summers relaxing, the 7-year-old from Maryland was hard at work, delivering a trailer full of COVID-19 supplies to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, which is considered to be one of the poorest places in America.

As if that wasn't enough, Bell  — who founded his own nonprofit organization, Cool & Dope, to combat bullying and spread positivity — continued his efforts last week by loading up a 53-foot truck of supplies and delivering them to the reservation 

ahead of winter.

″The weather's starting to get cold, plus September is Kids' Suicide Awareness Month, and the Pine Ridge Reservation has the most kids [dying by] suicide,″ Bell tells PEOPLE (the TV Show!). ″I'm just trying to do what's best for them. I'm just trying to make them have a big fat smile on their faces.″ 

Bell says he initially learned about Pine Ridge after passing through on a road trip back from Colorado in 2018 with his mother.

″We were driving for miles and miles and there was a straight-up nothing,″ he recalls, noting that his mom eventually told him about the reserve. ″I was like, 'Well, maybe we should do something for them since they're in the middle of nowhere.' "

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