I hope Bon­nie Fuller and HollywoodLife.com don’t object too much to me repost­ing their story here.

Good job, Selena and Justin!

Link: http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/12/16/justin-bieber-selena-gomez-charity-helping-children-philanthropy/

Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Are Heros For Help­ing Chil­dren Des­per­ately In Need

Decem­ber 16, 2011: Justin and Selena are so rich and famous they could eas­ily not bother doing the hard stuff– giv­ing up their own time and per­sonal warmth to chil­dren who are needy — but they do.

I heard two amaz­ing sto­ries today — one involved Justin Bieber and the other, Selena Gomez.

While I didn’t know the exact day this hap­pened this week, I do know that Selena Gomez lit­er­ally walked out of her record­ing stu­dio in Los Ange­les when she heard about the plight of a 13-​​year-​​old terminally-​​ill girl named Hana, who is a huge fan of Selena.

Hana is heart­break­ingly suf­fer­ing from an incred­i­bly rare dis­ease called prog­e­nia, which makes lit­tle chil­dren age at a rate that is 8 to 10 times faster than normal. Most vic­tims don’t live beyond the age of 13 and tiny lit­tle Hana, pic­tured here, is liv­ing on bor­rowed time at Children’s Hos­pi­tal in Los Angeles.

Selena, who lives a beyond-​​busy life, heard about Hana through Ryan Seacrest, and decided that noth­ing was more impor­tant than vis­it­ing Hana.

I ask you — how many 19-​​year-​​olds have the matu­rity to put other people’s needs ahead of their own, espe­cially the needs of a stranger? Most peo­ple wouldn’t even be com­fort­able vis­it­ing some­one who was so sick. But Selena has proven once again that she’s no ordi­nary superstar.

She went to visit and spent time with Hana. Hana’s tutor Sarah reported back to Ryan that Selena made “Hana’s dream come true” and said Selena’s visit gave lit­tle Hana “the best Christ­mas ever.” Ryan him­self described Selena as “one of the most gen­er­ous peo­ple I ever met in my life,” and I have to agree.

Her boyfriend Justin is just as gen­er­ous and if any­thing, even busier. But he took time today to play a con­cert for 610 stu­dents at the East Las Vegas ele­men­tary school. The school’s stu­dents come from very needy fam­i­lies and the school doesn’t just edu­cate — it also pro­vides food, cloth­ing, den­tal care, glasses and more to the pupils, thanks to the work of its ded­i­cated prin­ci­pal, Sher­rie Gahn.

“Toothpaste, toiletries, food. These are a few things we just take for granted that these kids don’t get,” said Gahn.

When Justin appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show Oct. 31, he pledged to give $100,000 to the school and to play a con­cert there in December. Today he made good on that promise, tweet­ing, “Head­ing to Vegas in the morn­ing to keep a promise to a spe­cial group of kids.”

And he tweeted again a cou­ple of hours ago, “In Vegas feel­ing good. Time to make some fun happen.”

Boy, I bet he did! Those stu­dents must be feel­ing fan­tas­tic hav­ing Justin sing to them, meet them and to have his dona­tion mak­ing a mate­r­ial dif­fer­ence in their lives.

So the next time you feel too busy to take some time to make someone’s life a lit­tle bet­ter, remem­ber that if Selena and Justin can do it, so can you!

Thanks, Selena and Justin!

– Bon­nie Fuller