It's nice of you guys to try to help this kid out and everything, but you have to question yourself as to whether you should even be doing this. When I was growing up I didn't have much, and there were many things I wish I could have had. I was taught to never even borrow money as a kid, much less ask complete strangers to GIVE ME something. If this kid needed something that was a necessity... go ahead, but for a novelty item? Any upstanding person (kid or adult) would not be doing what he's doing IMO. Your generous act is going to backfire as the kid will grow up thinking that if he really wanted something he can just ask for it and he'll get it.
Plutoh - We all have our sob stories... you need to use the tragedies in your life to make you a better person, not using it to gain sympathy so that you can get something for free.