Odd way to support

BEST FOOT FORWARD: Odd Shoe Day at Greytown Primary School on Friday helped raise much-needed funds for Camp Quality. Pictured from left are Kayla Evans, 11, Isabella Walker, 10, Eddie Doherty, 11, Ruby Fairbrother, 10, Emma Simpson, 10, Laura-rose Holden, 10, and Georgia Cartmell, 11. PHOTO/LYNDA FERINGA

Pupils at Greytown School put their best foot forward on Friday and joined in the nationwide Odd Shoe Day to help raise funds for child cancer battlers and Camp Quality New Zealand.

Rachel Burt, Greytown School teacher and Camp Quality companion, said children at the school, and some staff, had paired odd shoes and made gold coin donations for the Camp Quality Odd Shoe Day Appeal, which aimed to raise funds for camp programmes for children living with cancer.

A student at the school attended the camps, she said, and she had become involved when her nephew Brad Burt was diagnosed with aggressive brain tumours when he was aged nine.

The upcoming Camp Quality for the region will be be held at Lindisfarne in Napier, she said.

Brad, 14, had twice undergone surgery to remove the tumours and was today attending college and was thankfully still in remission, she said.

She said Brad was on Friday a guest speaker at a charity event at The White Swan in Greytown that was raising funds for the Child Cancer Foundation.