Sydney, Australia, Sep 10, 2018 / 10:04 am
With severe drought conditions continuing to affect farmers in Australia, a fourth grader at a Catholic school has raised more than $1 million for charities providing drought support.
Jack Berne, a 10-year-old boy, is a fourth-grade student at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Freshwater, a suburb of Sydney. The Australian capital is located in New South Wales, which is currently experiencing its worst drought in half a century.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"We got to a million yesterday which was amazing - a million dollars. And to think when we first got asked, what's our goal, we were speaking about a $1000." – Young Jack Berne has raised $1 million for farmers suffering through the worst drought in Australia's history. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/7News?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#7News</a> <a href="https://t.co/tznxn65337">pic.twitter.com/tznxn65337</a></p>— 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) <a href="https://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/1038008313848320000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
After learning in school about the drought and how it was affecting farmers, Berne wanted to help.