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Mellissa Dzinzi

Leeds girl, 4, raises thousands for NHS with adorable gesture and smashes fundraising target

An adorable four-year-old girl from Leeds has smashed her fundraising target for the NHS by a staggering 3,000 per cent.

Sia Kohli has been raising money by creating and selling homemade rainbow printed tambourines, bows and ribbons.

With each tambourine hand-painted by Sia, her initial target was £100 - but she has already managed to raise just short of £4,000.

Her genius idea has proved so popular that she has even started taking orders from people as far away as Nottingham and London.

Litte Sia, from Guiseley, thought of the idea after the tambourine she used during Thursday’s 'clap for carers' broke.

Sia has been making tambourines to raise money for the NHS (Natasha Kohli)

She then decided she would make some for her school friends who also live on the street before launching a fundraising page in the hope of raising cash for the NHS.

Her mother Natasha Kohli, 34, said: "Sia wanted to take her tambourine instead of clapping and then when hers broke we thought to have a craft activity so she could make it herself.

“She wanted to make some for her friends on the street so they could have matching ones.

“It started off with 10 or 20 houses on the street but we have been posting them everywhere like London, Manchester, Nottingham."

To support Sia or order a tambourine contact, siasrainbows@outlook.com or you can leave a donation on her JustGiving page here.

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