Young Girl Raises Money For Fire Victims

BROWNVILLE (NEWS CENTER) -- A ten-year-old girl in Brownville is doing her part to help the Milo fire victims.

Danielle Sanders wanted to find a way to help the people who lost their homes and businesses in the fire. So she stood up in front of the student body at Brownville Elementary School and asked them to donate their spare change.

Over the course of the next week Sanders collected more than one hundred dollars to donate to the fire victims fund.

Sanders said she was nervous getting up in front of whole school but the other kids have been very supportive. "I stood up by myself and a lot of the kids in the school said that was very thoughtful of you," Sanders said.

"She couldn't have been more courageous than when she walked up to that mic to say what she needed to say," Sanders's teacher, Dawn Duncan, told NEWS CENTER.

"She was my hero that morning."

So far the town of Milo has raised more than sixteen thousand dollars for the fire victims.