In the wake of losing his four-year-old cousin Cooper to leukaemia, eleven-year-old Hugo Skinner of Christchurch found a way to transform grief into generosity — raising $560 for the Child Cancer Foundation in a single afternoon at a local supermarket. His act reminds us that even the youngest among us can find purpose in loss, and that love, when it has nowhere left to go, often becomes service to others.
11-year-old's $560 fundraiser honors cousin lost to childhood cancer
Cooper Smith, age 4, died from leukaemia on May 16, leaving his family and cousin Hugo to process the loss of a beloved child.