Little Kids, Big Ideas: Boy, 11, helping change lives with bottle caps

An eleven-year-old Melbourne boy has found an ingenious way to help children with disabilities around the world.

Isaac from Ascot Vale Primary School in Melbourne's north has been collecting bottle caps, which he sends to Envision Hands – an organisation turning the throw-away plastic into life-changing prosthetics for children.

"That thing changes their lives – from something so small as a bottle cap can become something so big," Isaac told 9NEWS.

It all started as a school project. His mother discovered Envison Hands and the 11-year-old got to work whipping up support.

Now, he not only has his whole school on board, but also local cafes and businesses.

"If everyone does their part, it's going to be a really big step to the future," he said.

"(The bottle caps) get shredded and broken down into a filament which they then use in a 3D printer to print the hands and the arm pieces," explained teacher Sarah Bergin.

Isaac has no plans to give up his booming charitable project, as he plans to hand over his school's efforts to his younger sisters when he goes to high school, where he hopes to get his new school on board.

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