Sitting here working my business, Sunshine dumps out a bunch of her snowmobile money on the floor and starts counting it...
Posted by Jackie Sue Oelfke on Wednesday, October 4, 2017
She asked her granddaughter what she was doing.
“I’m going to take it for milk money. I’m taking it for my friend Layla. She doesn’t get milk -- her mom doesn’t have milk money and I do,” Oelfke recounted online.
When she met with Sunshine's teacher, Rita Hausher, Oelfke found out that there are 20 kids in the class who don't have money for milk, which costs 45 cents a day, CBS News reported.
She shared her story on Facebook.
Milk money
Posted by Jackie Sue Oelfke on Thursday, October 5, 2017
The post inspired people to pledge money for a milk fund for the class. So Oelfke started a GoFundMe to help pay for milk for the rest of the semester. She set the goal at $700. In a week, the account had more than $1,000 that will pay for milk for every child in the class for the rest of the year.
The goal was raised to $5,000, and donors have surpassed it and then some with more than $9,000.
Oelfke said Sunshine came home a few days later, “Guess what! My whole class got milk today. Layla now has milk money.”
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