Kent schoolgirl tracks down 10,000 namesakes as part of campaign – but non-Kirstys are welcome to donate too
Calling all Kirstys! A schoolgirl from Tunbridge Wells in Kent is seeking people who share her name to help raise money for research into paediatric brain tumours like the one for which she is being treated.
Kirsty Waugh, who turns 12 on Monday, has already persuaded more than 10,000 Kirstys, Kirsties, Kersties and assorted other variants to plot their locations on a map that shows Kirstys can be found everywhere from Colombia to Malaysia, and even at the Rothera research station in Antarctica.
Kirsty and her father, Mat, are hoping to track down many more, to raise awareness and money for an area of cancer treatment that is widely regarded as underfunded.
“We thought: why don’t we ask people called Kirsty because they’re the best people, because it’s the best name,” she said.
