More than $6.3 million has now been donated to the victims of the Christchurch massacre via online fundraising pages.
The largest of those pages is Givealittle's official "Christchurch Shooting Victims' Fund'' which, as of 7pm yesterday, had raised more than $4.3 million from 56,000 plus donors.
The New Zealand Islamic Info Centre has also set up a LaunchGood page which has raised more than $1.7 million from 31,000 plus donors.
A separate online donations page set up on Victim Support's own website, after overload on the official Givealittle page, has raised over $117,000.
The official Givealittle page was set up by the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups, a national charity providing a 24/7 response to victims of serious crime and trauma.
Victim Support stressed on its Givealittle page that all the funds donated would go directly to ``support and resources for people affected by the Christchurch shootings and their family members''.
"This money is being ring-fenced and is NOT for Victim Support's regular operating costs,'' the page stated.
Spark has stepped in to sponsor the service fee of the page.
As new donations come in by the second, thousands of heartfelt messages of support have accompanied the money donations.
Christchurch man Nicholas Chan has raised $1270 vowing to run a half-marathon in under two hours for the victims.
On the New Zealand Islamic Info Centre LaunchGood page, a link to its Instagram page has been set up to "share stories of our martyrs'' and "honour their legacies inshaAllah''.
Dozens of Islamic societies and institutes globally, from Malaysia to California to New York, have contributed to the LaunchGood page.
Articles from international media have joined the effort to raise money for the Christchurch victims.
The New York Times has a "How to Help the Victims of the Christchurch Shootings'' page with relevant links to the New Zealand fundraising pages. - NZME
