Badly burned girl, 8, who lost her entire family in arson attack receives hundreds of Christmas cards and more than $200,000 in donations

Safyre Terry

A little girl who suffered horrific burns in a house fire that killed her entire family has received more than $200,000 in donations and hundreds of Christmas cards from wellwishers.

Little Safyre Terry had hoped for enough Christmas cards to fill a tree-shaped card holder bought by her aunt Liz Dodler.

After the aunt’s request for cards went viral, Safyre has now received piles of cards and gifts – with many more on their way to her home in Rotterdam, New York.

And a YouCaring campaign page to help pay for her medical bills has smashed the initial target of $15,000 and has received more than $225,000 – and rising.

‘Her message is out to the world now,’ said an emotional Liz, fighting back tears. ‘That’s what we’re happy about.

‘That’s all I have, is thank you.’

Dodler also shared a heartwarming photo of a happy looking Safyre holding a pile of cards that she received in the mail.

‘Can someone say GLOWING…Safyre got mail today,’ the caption on the post reads.

On Wednesday Safyre was invited to a post office near her home, which is processing the piles of mail flooding in for her.

New York postmaster, John Reilly, said that on day one of the appeal, the post office had already received more than a hundred cards, letters and multiple packages.

Staff were expecting a lot more to come in the run-up to Christmas.

‘Just the outpouring is such that we’re anticipating many thousands more to come in,’ he said.

Asked how many cards she thought she would get, Safyre said ‘twenty’.

Two years ago in Schenectady, New York, Safyre, her father, 32-year-old David Terry, and her three younger siblings, three-year-old Layah, two-year-old Michael and 11-month-old Donavon, were the victims of an arson attack.

Five-year-old Safyre was the only survivor and suffered severe burns to over 75 percent of her body.

Source: Daily Mail