Boxes upon boxes of Barbie dolls are now stacking up on the front porch of a local family’s home, all for a cause close to their hearts.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — What started as one man’s simple social media post has turned into something much bigger and a lot more pink.

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Boxes upon boxes of Barbie dolls are now stacking up on the front porch of a local family’s home in Flour Bluff, all for a cause close to their hearts. They’re calling it the “Breakthrough Barbie Bonanza.”

“It was like — it was a real life this is really happening,” said John Navar, who started the effort with his wife, Cheryl. “I was blown away.”

Inside each delivery? Not just any Barbie but the Type 1 Diabetes Barbie.

“This little heart on her arm is the CGM glucose monitor that she wears,” explained Cheryl Navar, a pediatric diabetes educator at Driscoll Children’s Hospital. “Kids wear those to check their blood sugar so they don’t have to poke their fingers continuously.”

Cheryl works every day with young patients who face the challenges of living with Type 1 diabetes. Together, she and her husband wanted to do something special to help those kids feel seen.

“I said, I wish I could give these to all the kids I work with in my clinic,” Cheryl recalled. “And he went, ‘I could do that.'”

“I still don’t think she was quite prepared for what I was going to do with it,” John added with a laugh.

John started spreading the word to friends and family and before long, the dolls started rolling in.

“We had 74,” John said. “Minus one — we got to give our first one away yesterday.”

What started as a single delivery quickly turned into a daily knock at the door with each box filled with another act of kindness. And now, hundreds more are on the way.

“Now that we can give them to so many more, it’s pretty exciting,” Cheryl said.

She’s seen both the heartbreak and resilience of the kids she helps every day.

“I’ve seen her come down with the lowest of lows, heartbroken for some of these kids,” John said. “A kid goes from one day being a normal five-year-old suddenly you have to regulate your sweets and give yourself shots.”

The effort also comes from a shared understanding.

“We have three children with genetic disorders,” John shared. “We know what it’s like for a kid to deal with a lot of medical stuff.”

And, as it turns out, Cheryl’s love for Barbie played a big role too.

“I try not to count them,” she laughed. “Too many to put on the shelf.”

When Cheryl discovered Mattel had made a Barbie with a glucose monitor and insulin pump, she knew it was something special.

“If Barbie can handle diabetes,” she said, “these girls can handle it too.”

Now, the couple is setting their sights on a big goal: raising $100,000 to make sure even more children living with Type 1 diabetes can receive one of these dolls.

“The big goal here is to get enough money to get in front of Mattel, so I can buy an entire run of these dolls to hand out,” John said. “And while I’m there, I figure why not ask for a Type 1 Ken doll, too?”

From one faith-led idea to a porch full of pink boxes, the Navars are proving that a little kindness can go a long way toward bringing joy to kids who need it most.

The couple hopes Mattel takes notice of the growing support.

They’ve set up a GoFundMe page to help buy more dolls and they plan to distribute the first round to patients at Driscoll Children’s Hospital next week.