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When Avery Sanford, a high school senior from Virginia, saw a man in an SUV pulling up in front of her house, she did not expect to see him dump 80,000 pennies on her lawn.<\/p>\n
Security cameras caught the moment when Avery\u2019s dad dumped it all, and when Avery\u2019s mom went outside to check who the man was, he told her those 80,000 pennies were for \u201cyour final child support payment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Avery was disappointed by her father\u2019s behavior. But she and her mother decided to use those pennies for a beautiful purpose.<\/p>\n
The two collected the pennies using a snow shovel and donated all 80,000 of them (a total of $800) to Safe Harbor, a domestic abuse shelter.<\/p>\n
\u201cTurning around and donating that money to moms and children in need \u2013 I feel like that just really turns the situation into a positive one,\u201d Avery told ABC 7<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cYou can learn a lesson from it.\u201d<\/p>\n When the story spread, many were inspired to donate.<\/p>\n \u201cOur online donation page just blew up. And we\u2019ve gotten over $47,000 worth of donations from locally, nationally, internationally \u2013 as far as England and beyond,\u201d said Mary Maupai, Safe Harbor\u2019s development director.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n