With his family struggling to make ends meet, Sonny came up with his own novel way help pay the bills.
Sonny Willett loves living on the farm. He loves the view, the animals and riding his bike around the paddocks.
But as the worst drought on record tightens its grip, his family has been struggling to make ends meet. "It's very sad because we have to go out of the area every day [to collect feed] because we have no food for the animals," Sonny said. The 11-year-old lives with his parents, Tania and Johnny, and older brother John on a 40-hectare grazing property near Goulburn on the New South Wales southern tablelands."The hardest thing is not having the finances you normally would to pay for things.The Willetts have had to halve their stock to 32 head of cattle and 70 merino sheep because they could not afford to feed them.
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