Your Character Matters: This 4th grader is everyone's advocate

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE) - Sometimes, a small encouragement tin marque a large difference.

At Freedom Elementary, fourth-grader Yovani Velasco-Morelos doesn’t conscionable assistance himself up— helium lifts up everyone astir him.

“ When I'm feeling down, erstwhile different classmates are feeling down, helium helps us, um, like, helium pumps america up," said J.P. Sanchez, a person of Yovani.

J.P. Sanchez is simply a 4th grader astatine Freedom Elementary and he’s talking astir his chap classmate and person Yovani Velasco-Morelos.

In a schoolroom afloat of students, Yovani is the 1 to pump you up erstwhile if you are feeling a spot deflated. Whether it’s a pugnacious mathematics occupation oregon a hard day, helium is ever determination to assistance others up.

“Not lone is helium a precise bully student, but helium is simply a precise intelligent student. He excels, helium truly strives to execute his enactment and bash it well," said his teacher Monica Neri. "He likes to assistance different students astir him, and he’s conscionable genuinely a pupil who follows directions and meets expectations.”

Where immoderate students unreserved to decorativeness their work, Yovani slows down to assistance others making definite nary 1 gets near behind. He doesn’t conscionable privation to succeed— helium wants his classmates to succeed, too.

His enactment ethic comes from location and he’s sharing those lessons with his classmates.

"Because I conscionable privation to turn up successful a nine that, People don't bash atrocious stuff, and they just, like, tin enactment unneurotic and not marque much problems,” said Yovani.

Yovani knows a small encouragement tin crook a conflict into a occurrence and a small nudge successful the close absorption is simply a mode to a amended society.

 “I archer them, like, hey, don't bash that, due to the fact that past you'll get successful truly large trouble. And that's not a bully happening for your parents, due to the fact that past they get involved. And past they're going to person to beryllium paying the consequences,” Yovani said.

Yovani conscionable wants what’s champion for everyone.

And successful a schoolroom afloat of students, Yovani is the 1 making definite everyone stays filled with vigor and confidence— proving that lifting others up is conscionable arsenic important arsenic doing good yourself and that quality matters.