Raglan Area school got behind the Jumping for June fundraiser for the Heart Foundation and raised impressive funds.
Seven year old Iggy Larsen-Jensen raised $1030 and was the top fundraiser at RAS. He agreed to do 100 skips a day for all of June and remained committed to it.
The Chronicle caught up with Iggy to congratulate him…
Were you a good skipper when you started?
Oh I was terrible !
What about by the time you finished?
I was a pro skipper, almost better than the high schoolers.
(He started being able to do one skip at a time and progressed to 19)
You were the top fundraiser in the school. What extra effort did you go to to have this success?
I did a video of me skipping and put it on my mum’s Facebook page.
Why were you so motivated to get behind this cause?
Because my friend’s brother has had a little hole in his heart and my friend Roger died because of a heart attack, so yeah, I’m doing it for all the people who have had heart problems really.
What did you learn from this experience?
That lots of people get heart attacks
Who supported you?
My whanau and my friends.
What are you up to for the holidays?
Probably just hanging out with my friends, biking into town.
