Bev Cowan wants to set the Raggamuffin crowd aglow.
The Rotorua woman is selling glow sticks at this weekend's Raggamuffin festival to raise money for her 2-year-old granddaughter Daryl-Ann Fehsenfeld.
The Dunedin toddler has severe cerebral palsy, microcephaly and epilepsy.
Her parents, Janine Bolton and Rob
Fehsenfeld, both originally from Rotorua, are trying to raise about $48,000 to take their daughter to Mexico for umbilical cord blood stem-cell treatment and therapy, which is not available in New Zealand. So far they have raised about $33,000 and their tickets have been booked for February 25.
Ms Cowan will run a stall on Saturday at the Raggamuffin festival at Rotorua's International Stadium.
The reggae festival will feature international superstars Ali Campbell, Ziggy Marley, Shaggy, Eddy Grant, Arrested Development and Inner Circle plus New Zealand artists Kora, Unity Pacific and Three Houses Down. Ms Cowan said she didn't know too much about the music but thought it would be a good place to sell the 1700 glow sticks she has left from previous fundraising efforts.
She'll sell them for $1 each or $5 for seven. "I'd really like to get rid of them if I can," Ms Cowan said.
She has been pleased with the support of Rotorua people who have bought $10 cookbooks compiled by the family with just 50 now left and she hoped the Raggamuffin crowd would be just as supportive.
Festival market and food stalls manager Stu Lyall said there were a good variety of about 40 stalls this year from people selling flax and woven products, clothing and sunglasses to jewellery, body piercing and tattooing.
