Wyatt Erber (right) with his neighbor Cara Kielty (© Laurie Skrivan/The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://aka.ms/wyatterber)

Boy donates $1,000 to pay for 2-year-old neighbor's chemo

9/5/2012

Wyatt Erber spent the whole summer tracking down clues for the First Clover Leaf Bank's scavenger hunt, but when the 8-year-old Missouri boy learned he'd won the $1,000 prize, it took him only a split second to decide what to do with it. Erber gave the entire check to his neighbor, 2-year-old Cara Kielty, in the hopes she could use the money to treat her recently diagnosed leukemia. "He said, 'How much chemo will $1,000 buy Cara?,'" the girl's mom, Trisha Kielty, recalls. "I'm completely floored by him."  Erber told the Kieltys that he'd entered the scavenger hunt just for Cara. "I didn't know what I would do with $1,000," Erber said. "But I knew what [they] could do." [Source]

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