Lets help Gaia follow her dreams
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Gaia Rowntree is a conscientious student who has excelled across the board in her school studies. She has always been self motivated and dedicated to doing her best in life for both herself and helping others around her. She is the sort of child that has moved and inspired so many in her short years just by being her.
She recently decided she wanted to go to ACG Senior College and when she realised we could not afford to send her she took it upon herself to apply for a scholarship. She was very surprised when she found out she had been accepted and offered a place at the college with a 50% scholarship.
Now the problem is this partial scholarship still means an extra $1067.50 per month in fees that we simply do not have. On top of this she will need to cover commuting to town and board to stay in town part of the week.
Gaia currently works two jobs and has already secured a job in town to replace one of her jobs on Waiheke when she starts her studies in town. She has been diligently saving and is trying to budget to make this all happen but put simply she needs your help.
We have planned an exhibition of her photography and a fund raising event to come but the first fees are due soon. She also has no computer to study and stationary and equipment costs so any and all contributions will be gratefully accepted.
Update for 09/11/2014 9 November 2014
Enter details of your update here Hello all you wonderful contributors. When setting this up I had not idea if it would be effective but I am already blown away. We had a serious fret when the reality hit of just what we were up for costs wise when we paid the $450 acceptance fee for Gaias placement. At first we were just so excited for her and the $10,000 scholarship she got all on her own. But shortly after realised this meant $10,000 more we had to pay plus travel and books, equipment etc and I suddenly thought omg we can't afford for her to do this even with a scholarship. But I couldn't not try considering how hard she had tried and still is to make this happen. Our family is indebted to each and everyone of you for giving us hope that we can make this happen. A million thanks
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