A facebook post regarding a two-and-a-half-year-old cancer-afflicted boy's father seeking monetary help for the child's treatment back in 2017 had got 14-year-old Alaiha Vanjara thinking about how she could help such critically ill children. That is when she started circulating messages and raising funds for their treatment. But little did she know that this noble gesture of hers would get her a place in the Limca Book of Records. Alaiha has been recognised as "the student who has raised the largest amount of money for critically ill children in the world".

The record says, "Alaiha Omar Vanjara, a Class 8 student from Bombay Scottish High School, raised Rs 1,23,101 for the medical treatment of Veer Pawar, a critically ill two-and-a-half-year-old child at SRCC Children's Hospital, in October 2017. The money was raised through family, friends and others, apart from R10,000 from her own savings." mid-day had first highlighted the story on November 10, 2017, when she raised the amount (which later became R2.23 lakh) for Pawar's treatment. She had also parted with her savings of R10,000, which she was supposed to use to paint her room on the theme of Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan.