Rachel had a 9th birthday goal of raising $300 for Charity:Water, and was using her Causes fundraising page to do so.
She had raised $220 by her birthday. But then she was killed in an auto accident. Her family reopened her campaign page so that people could honor her with donations.
And honor her they have.
Her campaign has now raised $734,095 from 20,876 donors!
One of the donations was for $2.57 and included this message:
“I cannot do more than this right now, but I will do more when I can. We all love you very much, Rachel. You have touched so many hearts.”
Wow!
Tom
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Inspired? Yes and no. I think it’s great that $734K has been raised for a wonderful cause. But, as we see so often, it took a disaster – a young girls death in this case – to generate all those dollars. The cause was just as important when Rachel was alive and she didn’t even reach her goal (and was probably disappointed). Just think about how much better a world we’d live in if we addressed problems before they became crises and if we didn’t wait for a tragedy to demonstrate our caring nature.
What a sad but sweet story. Does anyone know how people found out about this Cause to get such an overwhelming response? Was it blogged somewhere?
I actually saw the piece featured on NBC News but I’m not sure if that is AFTER they had raised all those additional donations.