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Gifts from County Down will be lighting up lives of Happy House kids this Christmas
Our friend Dawn Heather White, community services manager with mental health
in the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, issued a charity challenge
to her colleagues after returning from her latest visit to our family, last month.Auntie Dawn Heather, who sponsors Katana, has been to Happy huse many times and is a great friend. Over
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the years, with support
from colleagues and friends, she has raised almos £700.
True to form her collegaues rallied to her latest call, posting 61
gift bags of goodies for Happy House kids.
“On my recent visit to Happy House I was helping to
organise Christmas presents for each of the children. The aim is for each
child to get new outfit and a small present.
“Since getting back I have been putting together parcels to send out but each
parcel costs £8 to post air mail.
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| Cara with her Choo Choo doll and crown |
“I wondered if anybody would like to help by ‘posting a
parcel’ and asked my colleagues.
“I addressed padded envelopes and included the present and
a gift bag and asked if anyone would take one to post, or donate £8 to cover
the postage".
Dawn Heather, who offered spot prizes as an incentive for
those posting parcels, is thrilled with the fabulous response and little extras
added too.
And one lucky little girl will receive a princess crown and
a Choo Choo doll – because, according to Alice, the four year old daughter of a
team leader Cara McCarron, “every little
girl is a princess”
“ Cara went on to the charity website to explain more to Alice
who went straight to get her special bag
of her most favourite toys and chose a Choo Choo doll, which has a twin so they
will each have one, and her princess
crown.
“Her
childminder’s son, Nathan, has put in a plastic fire engine into his parcel and
both have added paintings..
“It is lovely
that the children are given the opportunity to think about others and do
something practical to help,” said Dawn Heather.
Top picture: : Mark Wright, support
worker; Dawn Heather White, community
mental health services manager; Heather Merry ,community psychiatric nurse and
Cara McCarron, team leader
