As a nine-year-old girl, Tara Goorhuis started collecting bottle caps for the Children Cancer-Free Foundation (KiKa). Over the course of ten years, the small-scale initiative grew into an awe-inspiring mountain of scrap metal weighing approximately 750,000 kilos, or over 40 million caps. The woman from Nijkerk is now forced to call it quits; the storage facility is on the verge of collapse.
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As a nine-year-old girl, Tara Goorhuis started collecting bottle caps for the Children Cancer-Free Foundation (KiKa). Over the course of ten years, the small-scale initiative grew into an awe-inspiring mountain of scrap metal weighing approximately 750,000 kilos, or over 40 million caps. The woman from Nijkerk is now forced to call it quits; the storage facility is on the verge of collapse.