Halloween is usually about travelling from house-to-house and asking for treats. Not for 9-year-olds Eddie Scott and Kahu Edmond-Smaill.
The two Opoho Primary School pupils have used Halloween as an opportunity to raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation.
Instead of accepting treats when going from door-to-door, the boys were accepting donations to fight child cancer.
The boys got the idea from their teacher. They chose to raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation because of a sister's friend who suffered from the illness.
Scoping the Opoho area for just over an hour, they raised a total of $86.
The boys had plans to raise more money to fight child cancer too, Kahu said.
``I was thinking maybe we could do it again next year.''
Kahu's very proud mother was delighted with the boys' efforts.
``I'm super proud,'' Esther Smaill said.
``I knew that they had collectively come up with the idea on Friday.
``They really did just come up with it largely themselves.''
The boys wanted to acknowledge their friend, Jaspar Schonleben, who helped them come up with the idea.
- Mark Quinlivan
