RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - If you ask Marlee Crowder what she wants to be when she grows up, she doesn’t have the answer just yet. As a fourth grader at Sunny View Elementary, she stays pretty busy, but there’s one thing that doesn’t change.

“I just like helping other people.”

Marlee lives in Western North Carolina, which was devastated after Hurricane Helene. Marlee’s home was okay, but the damage was still personal.

“One of my friends in the school, his house got hit,” said Marlee.

Marlee’s mom, April, said it was hard for Marlee to see a friend lose nearly everything.

“She saw that he had lost pretty much everything and what he did have that was salvageable, it might not have been what he wanted.”

Marlee set out on a mission. With Christmas just a few months after He

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