12-Year-Old Wisconsin Boy Saves Grandmother's Home From Foreclosure

By aaroncynic in News on Feb 29, 2012 7:20PM

Earlier this month, a 12-year-old Wisconsin boy managed to raise enough money to save his grandmother’s home, which had been in his family for three generations. After Noah Lamaide’s grandmother, Janice Sparhawk, fell behind on mortgage payments due to taking out money to put a new roof on the home, the boy stepped in to help, ABC7 reports.

Lamaide started a website called Noah’s Dream Catcher Network with the goal of raising $10,000 by the end of January, writing:

"I want to help someone who is very dear to me for my next dream... My Grandma has fallen on hard times and is going to lose her home…Her home will go for auction on Feb 15th. Please help me save her home so the kids of Portage Cty in need still have a place to go that is safe!!"

The 72-year-old Sparhawk became unable to work after complications from surgery and severe asthma. She served as a foster parent for hundreds of children. On Feb. 6, Noah signed over a batch of checks worth $10,500 to the Portage County Bank to stop the foreclosure. “I called our local representative, the governor, the president, not asking for money but asking them to help me find a program and they couldn’t do it,” Sparhawk told Fox News.

“But this 12 year old could. He saved this house.”