A brave little girl with cancer hopes to break a record by getting 8,000 birthday cards.
Amelia Kolpa, seven, has rare neuroblastoma in her stomach.
She has been in and out of hospital since she was two-years-old.
Amelia beat the cancer but then it returned and she is now getting palliative care.
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She turns eight in just over five weeks on 3 March.
To mark it, mum Katarzyna Bartczak wants her to smash a UK record for the most amount of greeting cards.
Cards are beginning to arrive from all across the country and further afield.
”To be honest I’m in shock at how many we have got,” proud Katarzyna, of Halesowen, West Mids, told Need To Know.
“Every time I show Amelia how many people love her and want to wish her happy birthday, her smile, her giggling and spark in her eyes make me so proud of her. “
She added: “Her journey was so long and now we are doing everything to make her happy and comfortable and make all her wishes come true.”
They initially set a target of 5,000 but have since increased it.
Wellwishers can drop off cards at three locations in her local area.
They are Highfield Primary School, Beeches Road, Rowley Regis, B65 0DA, and Leasowes High School, Kent Road, Halesowen, B62 8PJ.
The other is Artisan Espresso Bar Ltd, 168 Halesowen Street, Blackheath, Rowley Regis, B65 0ES.
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