BILLINGS – For nearly a decade, Aiden Fouhy has been collecting and donating children’s books to St. Vincent Healthcare’s Pediatric Unit.
Fouhy, who’s now a high school senior and 17 years old, came up with the idea when he was eight.
“I felt like I wanted to do something for somebody,” Fouhy said at the Billings hospital Wednesday. “I felt like I wasn’t doing enough, so I wanted to do something that impacted a lot of people.”
The process first began when Fouhy earned some money for selling livestock. At that time his parents encouraged him to be charitable, but they never could’ve imagined the idea he came up with.
“I always thought, ‘Well, when I don’t feel good, I like to read,'” Fouhy said. “So I was like, ‘Well kids in the hospital are an awesome way to do it.'”
And so the Fouhy’s have been making the nearly …