The image above is an email I received this morning from Lotto NZ letting people registered to play through their App that this past Saturday's “Special Must Be Won Draw” raised $11,770,000 to help people impacted by Cyclone Gabrielle. This was part of the government’s response to help people affected by the cyclone, and it’s something that’s been done in the past for other disasters, too.
The funds will be distributed through the Lottery Grants Board, which distributes the net proceeds from Lotto’s games to community organisations. In this case, the $11.7 million will go specifically to the affected communities, meaning a lot of help for the communities in that region specifically
I bought a ticket for the draw, and so, gave a bit of money to the effort, as did hundreds of thousands of other Kiwis. Small, simple things like this make it very easy for people to help.
For the record, I did not win any money in the draw. Even so, I was glad to see the communities affected by Cyclone Gabrielle did win.
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