14-Year-Old Alva Girl Supports Hospital Through Kindness Project

At 14 years old, Kayla Leeper of Alva, Okla., is giving hope, not only to the patients and staff at Share Medical, but she’s also a light for the entire town. 

When she was just nine years old, Kayla got to experience the joy of giving,  

“I just saw people crying of joy and hugging me, and it just felt like the best, it was just the best feeling,” Leeper said. 

She started Kayla’s Kindness project, and now at 14 she does fundraisers to provide care packages to patients at the Share Medical clinic in her hometown of Alva. 

“I give about 10 bags a month here, and so they just call me whenever they run out of bags and I bring more bags,” Leeper said.  

The care bags contain hygiene products, chalk and chalkboards, even back scratchers and entertainment items like her very own kindness project coloring book and more. 

“Then, there’s eye mask because the bright lights in the hospital room. I have headphones, like earmuffs so all the beeping and stuff, you can sleep peacefully,” Leeper said. 

She even provides teddy bears for children being seen in the ER. 

“When they come to the ER, there’s a reason they are there, and you know we’ll bring them the bears, and it just gives them comfort,” Mark Almack, a nurse with Share Medical, said. 

With all of this Leeper still wanted to do more. 

“She also provides televisions for our facility. She’s provided eight televisions and also charging stations for cell phones,” Regina Wilson, with the Share Clinic, said. 

“There’s still a few more rooms that I want to get tv’s for, which I want to get that for the coming up year,” Leeper said.  

Kayla’s mom, Terri Leeper, is extremely proud of her daughter and understands her role as a mother.  

“I can provide my input, but she certainly is the one who is the driver of the program, I’m just the driver of the car,” Terri Leeper said. 

A 14-year-old not motivated by making money or social media followers. 

“I just wanted to see people smile because that’s what I do, and that’s what I want to do and make the world a better place,” Kayla Leeper said. 

To see all of the acts of kindness, check out her Facebook page at Kayla’s Kindness Project.