A northern Michigan man flies a plane full of toys to help children affected by the tornado in Kentucky. Tim Baise, president of Lansing, Michigan-based charity Homeless Angels, was just finishing up his organization’s toy drive this past weekend when he got on the phone with the manager of the airport in Mayfield, Kentucky. He was asking what he should send to people suffering after the recent devastating tornadoes there. Standing amongst thousands of toys they’d just collected, he got excited when the man on the phone told him to bring toys.
"There's hundreds of houses that are just destroyed. There's no way these families are going to be able to get anything for these children. Toys. I mean I had goosebumps, I almost couldn't breathe, right? I started like welling up because I'm in the middle of this," Baise says. "He had no idea who I was or what we were doing at the time and he said ‘toys.’ And all I could say is 'I'll be there tomorrow.’”
So Baise loaded up his plane with as many toys as he could fit, around 1-thousand toys by his estimation, and he flew them down to Kentucky to give to children that have lost everything and might not otherwise be getting anything for Christmas.