After Georgina Drover's great-niece became ill with Crohn's disease, the central Newfoundland family wracked up thousands in debt from the costs of traveling back and forth to a faraway hospital for treatment. Drover, 78, tried to think of how she could help 12-year-old Kelsey and her parents pay their bills – and soon came up with a sweet solution.
"I didn't really intend to do anything – I was just going to give her a little bit of money," Drover told CBC News. "It's almost like a voice said to me, ‘You should start a cookie fund for Kelsey.'"
Drover began baking and selling a few batches of cookies at a time, but business quickly started booming. "As fast as I could make ‘em and bake ‘em, they were selling," she said. Within six months, she had baked over 800 dozen cookies – and raised $5,765 to help her grand-niece.
"It really touched my heart that I could do something to help someone," she said.
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