Carterton raises over $16k for family of toddler killed in driveway by car
28 Apr, 2021 07:44 PM
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More than $16,500 has been raised by the Carterton community for a local family. Photo / Wairarapa Times-Age
More than $16,500 has been raised by the Carterton community for a local family. Photo / Wairarapa Times-Age
Wairarapa Times-Age
By: Soumya Bhamidipati
The Carterton community has raised more than $16,500 for a family whose child died in a vehicle accident two weeks ago.
Fundraiser Elaine Leggott said the final sum was to have been given to the family yesterday, once any remaining bank transactions had cleared after the public holiday.
Carterton community rallies around family after child s death
20 Apr, 2021 07:58 PM
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The Carterton community is rallying around the family of a toddler struck by a car. Photo / Wairarapa Times-Age
The Carterton community is rallying around the family of a toddler struck by a car. Photo / Wairarapa Times-Age
Wairarapa Times-Age
By: Soumya Bhamidipati
The Carterton community is rallying around a family whose child died in a vehicle accident last week.
Elaine Leggott, who managed the Doing a Good Deed Facebook page, set up a fundraiser for the family after receiving messages from members of the community. People were messaging me saying, what are we going to do and how are we going to help, Leggott said.
Support funds have been set up across wider Wairarapa. Elaine Leggott’s Doing a Good Deed page on Facebook has bank account details for donations that will go into a fund for the family. “People in the community on the page said ‘what are we going to do for the family?’, so I started something up.” Leggott, who does not know the family personally, said there has been a “huge outpouring” of support because these tragedies hit home for everyone, it only takes a split second and everything is changed. She said she hoped that the money they were raising could be used to go towards any costs at this tragic time.