A nine-year-old girl raised enough money to have a kitchen built for Malawi schoolchildren after council bosses tried to shut down her blog.
Martha Payne's popular NeverSeconds blog about school dinners became an internet sensation after council bosses tried to have it shut down.
A charity fund, which she ran alongside the blog, soared as donations came in when the blog was briefly closed.
Argyll and Bute Council banned her from posting photos of her school meals on her blog but it was overturned after a storm of protest.
She has now raised more than £80,000 for the charity Mary's Meals and recorded more than five million page views online.
Last week she was told to stop posting the pictures online.
Argyll and Bute Council said press coverage of the blog had led catering staff to fear for their jobs.
However, after a worldwide response to the story - including support from celebrity chefs Nick Nairn and Jamie Oliver - the council's leader announced that he had instructed senior officials to lift the ban.
As of this morning, donations had reached £82,000. Martha had originally set herself a target of raising £7,000.
She wrote: "A small thank you isn't enough so here's a big THANK YOU to you all!"
Mary's Meals said it would use some of the money to build a school kitchen in Malawi, where it costs about £10 to feed a child for an entire year.
Martha has decided to name it "Friends of Never Seconds". She said she wanted to give credit to all those who had donated.
