Icy challenge for Heart Kids
A group of friends with heart conditions have done something cool for the charity that has helped them their whole lives.
On Sunday, family and friends gathered in Upper Hutt to watch 14-year-old Ciara Griffin and her team members take an icy plunge to raise funds for Heart Kids.
The event, now marking its 20th anniversary, is called the 360 Heart Stopper Challenge. For 360 seconds, participants sit in a tub of cold water and ice, or a paddling pool, or stand in a cold shower to represent how surgeons have to pack the chest cavity with an icy slush when performing open-heart surgery.
“It feels really good to be giving back to the charity that has helped us our whole lives," Ciara said.
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