- Ivy Fijac, from Melbourne, asked her birthday guests to bring charity donations
- The four-year-old wanted blankets and dog food for a local animal shelter
- Mum Loryn said her daughter has been taking donations, not presents, for years
- Friends and family donated nearly 50 blankets and six bags of dog food
A four-year-old girl from Melbourne has proven you’re never too young to be kind, asking guests to bring blankets and food instead of birthday presents to donate to charity.
Little Ivy Fijac dropped of a large donation of dog food, blankets, treats and toys to the North Melbourne Lost Dogs’ Home on the weekend.
Mum Loryn Fijac spoke to 3AW Radio on Tuesday morning and explained her daughter’s kind actions.
Little Ivy Fijac dropped of a large donation of dog food, blankets, treats and toys to the North Melbourne Lost Dogs’ Home on the weekend
‘She’s done this before, we’ve done it since her first birthday,’ Mrs Fijac told listeners.
‘But this year was the first year she’s been able to understand what’s been going on.’
Mrs Fijac said her family have done the same with her one-year-old son as well.
Friends and family donated ’40 to 50 blankets, five or six huge bags of dog food, dog treats, tins and loads of toys’.
Ivy sits with her donation of ’40 to 50 blankets, five or six huge bags of dog food, dog treats, tins and loads of toys’
The animal shelter that received the donation from the Fijac family let Ivy see where her kind gifts were going
‘We even had people who weren’t invited to the party who dropped off massive trash bags of blankets,’ she said.
The family car was loaded with the donations and Ivy looked delighted with her kindhearted gifts.
Mrs Fijac said the shelter was ‘awesome’ when the family dropped off their kind donation.
‘They were so excited, they were really cool with Ivy and took her to the bit to see where her donations were going.’
The mum-of-two said Ivy does still get presents from her parents and grandparents.