Girl's bake sale yields $3,000 for Haiti

At age 10, Mallory Fernald may be small but her heart dreams big.

Mallory listened intently as her pastor was reminding church members that thousands of Haitians are still homeless from the January 2010 earthquake. Many are forced to live in tents or cardboard boxes.

"I felt sad and wanted to do something to help," Mallory said after the sermon in early February.

That evening in a business meeting, her church, First Baptist in Live Oak, Fla., voted to participate in Rebuild Haiti, an effort to construct cement block homes for Haitian families. The cost of each home is $2,500.

Mallory's dream began to take shape. She approached her mother, Leigh, and told her she wanted to have a bake sale with a goal of $1,500 toward building a home in Haiti.

Not wanting to discourage her young missions-minded daughter, her mother gave her the go-ahead.

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