Inspired: Boy Sells Toys to Raise $2.85 for Giffords

(CBS) The tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others has made lots of unlikely heroes.

Nine-year-old Isaac Saldana is one of them. The young Tuscon, Ariz. student sold off his toys and a sentimental bracelet his father gave him in order to raise $2.85 for Gifford's recovery. Without anyone knowing, he quietly mailed the money and a get well card to Giffords' hospital room.

That's according to the Huffington Post, which spoke to young Isaac and his mother Aracely Saldana.

"I felt really bad about Gabrielle being in the hospital and getting shot, so I just wanted to help her," Isaac told the site.

"I didn't even know what was going on," his mother told the Huffington Post. "I received an email from his teacher saying she just wanted to give me a heads-up that she caught him in class selling toys, so she took his backpack away later that day. I asked him what was going on and he told me the reason he was doing it was that he was trying to raise money to send to Gabrielle."

The gesture is especially meaningful to the Saldana family. Christina-Taylor Green, the youngest person to die in the shootings was just nine years old - the same age as little Isaac.

Want to hear the full inspirational story? Check out the Huffington Post.