MOST teenagers would receive a stern telling-off for not eating their dinner, but when 13-year-old Louisa Groves, Charlotte Orange and Kelly Higgins didn't eat their dinner, lunch or even breakfast, people gave them money!
The Newton Abbot schoolgirls raised £81 for Rowcroft Hospice by organising a 24-hour fast.
Louisa, a pupil of Knowles Hill School, lost her great uncle last year to lung cancer and her grandfather is currently battling a brain tumour.
She has lived with her grandparents for four years after a troubled early childhood with her parents and, having seen the difference that the Rowcroft day care centre made to her grandfather's quality of life, Louisa decided to give them a helping hand.
She wrote to Rowcroft Hospice which was delighted to hear of her idea and immediately dispatched the girls' sponsorship forms so they could start collecting.
The fast began at 8am on Tuesday last week and the three girls made it through with nothing more than mineral water to keep their rumbling stomachs happy.
'It was a school day, which helped,' said Louisa's grandmother, Jill Wallace. 'She was also full of cold so I don't think she had much of an appetite either. That said, as soon as it went 8am of Wednesday morning, she had three bowls of cereal!
'We're very proud of her for organising the whole thing and for making it through the 24 hours.'