Texas teen spends $25,000 on shoes for children in El Paso Instead of bar mitzvah gifts, he asked for cash for the Braden Abound Foundation.

13-year-old Drew Frank used all of his bar mitzvah gift money to donate it to The Braden Aboud Memorial Foundation to give over 420 news pairs of Nike shoes to children at Beall Elementary in El Paso, Texas. Source: Facebook less 13-year-old Drew Frank used all of his bar mitzvah gift money to donate it to The Braden Aboud Memorial Foundation to give over 420 news pairs of Nike shoes to children at Beall Elementary in El Paso, Texas. ... more Photo: The Braden Aboud Memorial Foundation / Facebook Photo: The Braden Aboud Memorial Foundation / Facebook Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Texas teen spends $25,000 on shoes for children in El Paso 1 / 23 Back to Gallery

At age 13, Drew Frank is showing an immense generosity that has caught the attention of thousands across the country.

The El Paso resident recently turned 13 years old and in lieu of gifts for his bar mitzvah, he asked for cash donations instead. After counting the gifts, Frank had over $25,000 to donate to the Braden Aboud Foundation, a nonprofit that gives away high-quality shoes to lower-income neighborhoods. The money from his bar mitzvah bought 800 pairs of Nikes and 800 pairs of socks, USA Today reports.

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Of those 800 shoes, 420 of them went to the children at Beall Elementary in El Paso. The other 380 will be going to an El Paso orphanage and a YWCA transitional living center for women and children, according to USA Today.

"I'm giving sneakers to these kids who may otherwise not have new sneakers," Frank told KPNX. "They just get shoes that have been passed down from generation to generation. I just wanted to give back to these kids who are less fortunate than me."

The young man's generosity sparked a national interest with multiple media outlets picking up his story and a hashtag, #JustDrewIt (a play-off of Nikes' "Just Do It" slogan), throughout social media.

Hundreds of smiling kids received a brand new pair of shoes from Frank's donation during the shoe giveaway at Beall Elementary. Click through the slideshow above to see some photos from the event.

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