If Jacinda Short could make somebody's Christmas it would be with a sweet smelling posy and a smile.

The 18-year-old plans to deliver more than 60 of both to patients at Tauranga Hospital tomorrow , after winning an international competition through the organisation HelpOthers.org.

The online site asked for ideas on how you should help others with US$100 ($181).

"My wish was to give out small posy bunches to patients in hospital on Christmas Day," she said.

"I was in no way expecting to win. There was a huge long list on the website of everyone else's ideas .

Jacinda's idea won, and she received a good deal from Grey Street Flower Company, who she will collect over 60 posy bowls from today.

"I'd love to do this to help others. My mum was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years back - with eight tumours when I was 11 - and that was around Christmas time," she said.

Together with her mum Debbie, dad Tim and sisters Rebecca, 20, and Louisa, 14, Jacinda will deliver the posy bunches in between performances at the Tauranga Sebel Trinity Wharf Hotel, where she and her sisters,'The Short Sistars' (see www.mount-tutu.co.nz) will sing Christmas carols at lunchtime and dinner time tomorrow.

Jacinda said the best part about her good deed at the hospital will be "seeing the smile and happiness on people's faces".

She plans to deliver the flowers to those who are terminally ill, those who look lonely or sad, and to children.

While the flowers will no doubt impress the patients, Jacinda, who was in Year 13 at Tauranga Girls' College this year, said there was a simpler goal to what she hoped to achieve:

"Money doesn't always have to be the thing which is the answer to kindness. It comes from the heart."

P.S - Thankyou so much to this organisation in the part of making this story possible! I am so thankful :)

Jacinda Short