A five-year-old girl from Glasgow has raised over £150 for the DEC Pakistan Floods appeal after baking cakes with her two-year old sister and selling them to friends and neighbours.
Megan Stuart was mesmerised by television images of an elderly Pakistani lady being lifted into a rescue boat, and told her Mum, Grace, that they must do something to help. Grace said:
'I was making dinner, and Megan came through to ask for help with some craft things she was doing. She couldn’t speak, because she was mesmerised by the images on the television; it was that very powerful image of the 90-year-old lady.
'Megan was very distressed by it - she has friends at school who have family in Pakistan, and she was very worried that this old lady was one of her friends' grans. "We must do something, Mum" she said.
'So I explained that Mum and Dad had given our money on the computer, but that I was sure she and her little sister Katie, could do something.' "Baking" said Megan. "I will make top-hat cakes, and Katie will make buns, and we will have tea for Pakistan."
So, Megan and Katie got baking, invited friends and neighbours to a tea party and at 2pm on Sunday 15 August the family set up a little stall on our front step to sell cakes.
'It was a lovely afternoon, so lots of people came, some from Megan’s school and the teenage girls from across the street. We collected some flowers and put them in a vase and Megan made a donation box out of an old ice cream container.'
The tea party raised just over £150 for the DEC and Megan has started her new term at Mearns Primary more content since the money has been banked. The school was having a 'dress as you please' day on Friday 20 August to raise money for the DEC Pakistan Floods appeal too.
There is a tradition of raising money for the developing world in the Stuart family - Megan's grandfather Jack is the Christian Aid Week organiser at Lansdown Church, Glasgow.