NANTICOKE-- A woman from Luzerne County created a Facebook event called "Pay It Forward September."
Her idea spread, and within hours it had reached more than 70,000 people.
For the past couple of months, 22-year-old Sara Zupancic has been dealing with an injury from a car crash. It created a ripple effect of tough times for her, and she wanted to change that.
"I was kind of feeling down and out, and I just wanted to give people the hope that I am looking for," said Zupancic.
Last weekend Zupancic logged on to Facebook and created the event. She randomly picked September 1 as the date to encourage her friends and family to do a simple act of kindness on that day.
She told her mother she hoped it would spread to maybe a few hundred people.
"She started an event and she's like, oh there's like 600 people. I can't believe it! I'm so excited, that everyone wants to be involved and everyone wants to be good to one another. I said that wonderful," said Sue Mieczkowski, Zupancic's mother.
Wonderful turned into amazing because people began sharing Zupancic's event like wildfire. It has reached people not only all over Pennsylvania, but all over the world.
"When I first saw the post that somebody was like 'Hey I am from Australia, so it's not just America anymore', I went immediately back into the description and changed it to global."
Zupancic's "Pay It Forward" Facebook event reached more than 70,000 people in the first day. Now it's up to almost 200,000 with about 8,000 confirmed participants.
Linda Uren is one of the people in Pennsylvania participating.
"It's exciting, I didn't think it was going to go so big too. I mean I invited all my friends, and they invited their friends. Everybody just did that," said Linda Uren of Plymouth.
Zupancic says her outlook has certainly been brightened by all this, and she is using her own event to do something good. She's now selling t-shirts to help one of her Facebook participants who has a three-year-old son fighting cancer.