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Make a Smile Appeal
03 February 2010
Lion Harry making the modifications The Finished article Harry Presenting the 100 T shirts to PC World
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An item on BBC news caught the eye of Blackburn Lions. It told of a team of surgeons going to India to perform corrective surgery on cleft pallet type disfiguring conditions. The article told of the cost of surgical gowns costing £3 each which if avoided would mean many more operations could be done. The idea was to modify old T shirts to become theatre gowns and decorate them with smiles so that the kids could keep them as souveneers after the operations. Blackburn Lions voted to purchase 100 T Shirts and decorate them for the appeal. The total cost was just under £150 thanks to helpful suppliers. The photos show Lion Harry taking the shirts to PC World, who had agreed to be a collecting point for what had become a BBC Blue Peter Appeal.
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