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Help is on the way for a Carterton couple and six young children left homeless in the wake of a house fire last week.
Isiah Wereta and his partner Hoana Hadfield, who is five months pregnant, last week lost to fire the rented Belvedere Road home they shared with their six young children.
Several people living in Masterton and Carterton were moved by the young family's plight and have contacted the Times-Age about donating goods and emergency supplies to them.
The children are all aged under 10 and the youngest, Aiesha-Jay, turned 2 the same day.
The blaze gutted the house and destroyed all her birthday gifts, along with a $10,000 specialist bed donated to the family by Wairarapa District Health Board for her 4-year-old sister Tanya, who has spina bifida.
Masterton mother Karen Wilton said yesterday she, her sister Janice Anderson and niece Kasey Anderson are holding a drive among their neighbours for bedding, toys and household items _ already including a television set and soon to have home baking and food items.
''It's the kids that miss out and with Tanya facing the challenges she already has and her little sister losing her presents _ they all need help that much more.''
The Hadfield-Wereta family are now living across the road in the three-bedroom home of Ms Hadfield's mother, Lucy Hadfield.