A primary school girl has raised £550 for the flood relief efforts in Bangladesh by designing and selling T-shirts.

Priya Hoq, aged 6, from Gorton in Manchester, creates T-shirts with the help of her parents Aminul and Claire.

She has to upload the design on an app and then has to cut it and has to pick out all the bits she doesn’t need. Her parents then heat press it for her and she peels it off and folds it.

Individual T-shirts cost £3 in total but they sell for £10. Her parents cover the costs themselves so more money goes into the fund.

Priya attends Gorton Primary school. When her parents told her teacher about the campaign he ordered some T-shirts for his nieces. They played her video in the school assembly and she spoke about it in front of her friends and made a lot of sales.

Priya, who has seen the devastating effects of the flooding, said: “I want to help Bangladeshi people with food and houses. I am very proud of myself. I want to keep making lots of T-shirts. I want to give money to poor people so they can have food.”

Proud mum Claire said: “At the end of term assembly, they played her video to parents. They were really supportive and Priya received many orders. Overall, she sold 49 T-shirts and raised £60 in donations over a six week period.

“She was coming home from school every day and would design T-shirts and used it as an excuse to stay up at night. She had a target of making three shirts a day. If the customer was local she would deliver it herself. She loved every minute and took pride in her work.

“The designs were based on what the customer wanted, some of them would have unicorns some would have a helicopter or Peppa Pig or anything they were into. We had a lot of designs with dinosaurs and rainbows.” Claire said.

“Now Priya wants to set up a charity because she wants to do more. She wants to start raising money for school uniforms, bags and books for poor children in Bangladesh. She’s not decided on future projects and whether she will carry on making T-shirts. We are still getting orders. Going forward, she has also thought about making and selling cups.”

She added: “Her younger brother Ismail was also involved. Now when he wakes up in the morning he ask for a new T-shirt. He designs his own T-shirts too.

“I am so proud of her, I have cried so many times as it all came from her mouth and they were made by her own hands. We didn’t tell her to do it she wanted to do it.”

The money she raised went to Bangladesh and bought 73 food parcels that were distributed in the poorer areas in Sunamganj in Bangladesh. Now Priya wants to raise more money for future projects.