Meet four year old Dubliner Luke Herangi. Luke has a form of cerebral palsy which will affect the mobility in his legs as he grows. Last year Luke was assessed and accepted for surgery in St Louis Children's Hospital, Missouri to permanently reduce this affects. This Friday 13 March he will travel to Missouri to receive the life-changing treatment thanks to an incredible community fundraising effort supported by Tesco. Luke’s Mum, Laura Herangi said "We as a family are so grateful for all the support we have received from family, friends and the wider community, and our local Tesco store in Ballybrack, in our fundraising efforts.  When we embarked on this journey in September we really did not expect to have met our target and to be travelling to St Louis for Luke's surgery this month.” She continued: “It is really down to the support of so many people who came on board and held coffee mornings, cocktail nights, bag packing fundraisers, and used their blue tokens to vote for our cause in the Tesco Community Fund. The awareness raised in such a short space of time has enabled us to "Get Luke to St Louis" and we will be forever grateful for this support." Luke's treatment is just one of 2,000 charities and community causes across Ireland that have shared a donation of €500,000 since the launch of the Tesco Community Fund initiative last July. The milestone marks the halfway point of the initiative which will see Tesco donate €1million to community causes across the country annually. Check out the video below to see some of the great causes benefiting from the Tesco Community Fund: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_vs16sw3k&feature=youtu.be Every six weeks, three new community causes are nominated in each Tesco store right across the country. Customers receive a blue token at the checkout each time they shop in their local Tesco store.  They then use that blue token to vote for the local cause they would most like to receive a share of the fund. At the end of each six weeks, the tokens are counted and up to €1,000 is shared proportionally between the three good causes. The more tokens a cause gets, the larger the share of the donation they receive – every token counts! To nominate a cause for the next phase of the Tesco Community Fund just drop into your local Tesco and pick up an application form. For further information or to download an application form please visit www.tesco.ie/communityfund/ To follow Luke’s story visit http://getluketostlouis.squarespace.com/