PG boy going above and beyond in BCCH fundraising effort

Six-year-old Sunjai Sharma has netted quite a following in his quest to sell 99 $100 chocolate bars in support of the BC Children’s Hospital.

“It’s 99 because of my favourite hockey player Wayne Gretzky,” Sunjai explained.

He breezed past that goal in September, even selling bar number 99 to Gretzky’s son, Ty, and selling bars at a Prince George Cougars game.

Sunjai has currently sold more than 125 bars in support of the BC Children’s Hospital, and he was also selected as one of the city’s 100 heroes in the hundred days of Hell Yeah PG Giving.

After catching up with orders, there wasn’t a new goal to reach, according to Sunjai’s father, Rajinder.

But now, there is a new marker to hit.

“My friend Trevor Steele and the Steele family has given Sunjai a bit of a challenge,” Rajinder explains in a Facebook post, “he says the Mcleod Lake Store will buy the 157th bar when he gets to 156, and my friend Bert Deol has already paid for chocolate bar # 143. So, it wouldn’t be fair to the children’s hospital for Sunjai to just leave $100.00 sitting there. Selling 100 was like teaching Sunjai sky’s the limit. Selling 157 will be showing him he has no Limit.”

He added that social media played a massive role in the project.

“The first 56 took about 5 months, which was pretty good, and then when Ty Gretzky bought one it got more attention, and then Scott McWalter, but once he promoted it, it took a month to sell 75.”

Sunjai has raised more than $10,000 for the BC Children’s Hospital… So far.

As they say, the best is yet to come.