Perth, Ont. family auctioning Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets to fund school mission trip [Video]

Taylor Swift fan Lauren Kealy is hoping her idol can help send her to the Dominican Republic.

The Grade 12 student at St. John Catholic High School in Perth, Ont. has been fundraising for months to pay for the mission trip that will send her and four other students to the Caribbean in February.

“We’ll be working with children, painting houses, building roads, teaching English, anything that they need us to do, we will do for them,” said Kealy.

The one hitch is that the total cost of the trip for the five students is $20,000 with no financial aid from the school.

Earlier this summer, Kealy and her family were lucky enough to secure tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Toronto next November.

That’s when she realized she was sitting on one of the hottest commodities around.

“We had four extra tickets so we thought it would be a good idea to give two to the …