Teen raises $50,000 for flood victims: Watch Jack's impassioned plea

Teenager Jack Berne has raised an incredible $50,000 for flood victims after the recent, devastating floods.

It's all in a day's work for Jack, 13, who along with his family launched the charity 'A Fiver For A Farmer' in 2017 and has raised much-needed funds for farming families.

Initially Jack's charity efforts aimed to help farmers struggling due to the drought. He pivoted during COVID-19 and helped once again and now the teenager has joined the Australia Unites Red Cross Flood Appeal 2022 to make an appeal on behalf of farmers once more.

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Jack appealed directly to those watching the appeal.

"If you're cooking up in the kitchen right now or doing anything else, please stop, sit on the couch and listen to this," he began. "What I need everyone to do is, if you're thinking of picking up that phone and calling, start acting.

"Call the line. Do the action... People need you to donate," Jack continues.

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"Use that Aussie spirit and be a part of something amazing," the teenager says. "These people are going through so much at the moment. And anything counts. $5, $10, $1, it doesn't matter. It's going to something great.

"I need you to donate. Call the line, please. For the benefit of Australia. Use that Aussie spirit they've seen first hand. I know you can do it, Australia. We've got this."

Jack's heartfelt appeal left Fordham suggesting the teenager consider running for Prime Minister, although he seems happy in his incredible line of work the runs successfully in addition to attending school.

Speaking to 9Honey in 2020 Jack spoke about launching the charity when he was only nine.

"I was just watching BTN [Behind The News on ABC], which is news for kids and it was about the drought," he says of that first year.

"I wanted to do something about it, so I went home and talked with Mum and we wrote an email to everyone just to get the message out."

Jack and his family had never visited a farm before, although they have been to quite a few now, including a cattle farm, a sheep farm and a capsicum farm.

The rest, as they say, is history — except Jack's work just keeps getting bigger and better.

Donate to flood victims via the Australian Red Cross here.