Kamryn Balfour was at a summer camp about 20 miles from Camp Mystic when the devastating July 4 floods happened, so she wanted to find a way to help.
LEAGUE CITY, Texas — A little girl with a big heart has raised thousands of dollars for flood relief efforts in the Texas Hill Country, according to her mom.
Eleven-year-old Kamryn Balfour was at Kickapoo Kamp in Kerrville when the July 4 floods killed dozens of people along the Guadalupe River. Thankfully, her camp didn’t flood, but Kamryn was heartbroken to learn that more than two dozen campers and counselors from Camp Mystic, about 20 miles away, died that day.
When she got back to Houston, Mom Kelly Balfour said Kamryn desperately wanted to give back in some way. She decided to sell homemade cookies and donate all of the money to flood relief efforts.
Kamryn spent hours and hours baking all of the cookies from scratch. A family friend who makes wedding cakes let her use her commercial kitchen, where Kamryn knocked out 17 batches of cookies in one day. She’s made a total of 27 batches with more than 1,000 cookies.
The Victory Intermediate sixth grader bagged them all up, added pretty pink bows, and sold each bag of Kamryn’s Kravings for $5.
So far, Kamryn has raised $2,945 for flood relief with a goal of at least $3,000, according to Kelly.
