22 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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Blue ribbon event will aid Ethiopian children
A CHARITY ball organised by a Ribble Valley-based group is to be held in aid of an international charity in the spring. The Blue Ribbon Charity Ball will aim to raise
£25,000 for UNICEF to help finance a vaccina tion project in Ethiopia. Funds raised at the May event, to take place at
the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, will go towards the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project, improving the delivery network of vaccines
against fatal childhood diseases throughout the country. The ball will be the first non-corporate event to
be held in aid of UNICEF in the North West. In the months leading up to the ball, the com
mittee, which consists of retired district nurse • Anne Geldard, practice nurse Eileen Sumner, Dr Anne Huson and Dr Sheila Bailey, all from Clitheroe Health Centre’s Castle Medical Group, as well as local business vroman Vicky Carter, has organised other events to help reach its £25,000 target. It has even involved local primary school children who entered a competition to design the front page of the ball’s brochure (see below). Patients of the Castle Medical Group raised
£1,300 for the project by supporting Drs Ibbot- son and Higson on a sponsored bike ride. Dr Bailey and Anne Geldard also worked with Shanaz Hussain and her friends from the Ribble
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Valley’s Tamanna Women and Children’s Group to hold an Indian Bazaar in Clitheroe raising around £1,500. In the New Year, blue ribbons will go on sale at numerous local outlets. I t is hoped people will make a donation of £1 for the ribbons, which will help deliver 25 immimisations. This year marks UNICEF’s 60th anniversary
and although a little late, the Blue Ribbon Ball is planned to coincide with the charity’s birthday celebrations. Dr Bailey began fund-raising for UNICEF,
along with a group of friends from Read shortly after the Asian Tsunami at the end of 2004.
were encouraged by the amount of support they received. It was this support which prompted the GP to organise the Blue Ribbon Ball. She said: “Often, money raised seems to go into
The group held two ceilidhs to raise money and
one big pot and people are never sure where their money is going, but the proceeds from the ball will be used for something specific. I hope this will
enourage more people to support us.” To be effective, vaccines must be kept in cold
storage rooms and standby power generators are essential to maintain cold temperatures as a 24 hour electricity supply is not guaranteed. Without proper storage facilities, vaccines
against measles, polio, whooping cough, TB and tetanus are often exposed to high temperatures and can be ineffective. The Ethiopian government is trying to imple
ment immunisation programmes in all nine of the country’s provinces, but this is no easy task as major problems exist in four of the provinces. Large amounts of vaccine need to be stored
close to the areas in which they will be used, but due to poor facilities this is not always possible. Remote rural regions have the least access to
vaccinations because storage buildings are often located in the capital, Addis Ababa. By the time the vaccines reach their destination it is too late. If the ball proves a success, the £25,000 target
Work experience student HANNAH RAMSDEN looks into the fund-rais ing efforts of a local Ribble Valley group, which aims to help finance a vaccination project for children in Ethiopia.
will enable UNICEF to set up or upgrade cold
rooms and supply generators in the four provinces where they are needed. Additional fund-raising at the ball will include
a raffle and a charity auction, where one of the lots is a specially made sculpture by local artist Clare Bigger. To help reach its target. Dr Bailey said the committee is looking for sponsors and donations “to help underwrite the costs of the ball, such as food and entertainment so that more money will go to the project”.” She added she wanted to say a “big thank you”
to all those people who have supported the project so far, especially the other members of the com- mittee. “We are incredibly grateful for the sup port we have received,” she said.
sponsorship should email the ball committee at
info@blueribbonball.org. Donations can be sent to the Castle Medical Group, Railway View Road, Clitheroe. More information about the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project can be found by log ging on to the website
www.blueribbonball.org and clicking on contact us. The event will take place on Saturday, May 19th, 2007. Our picture shows the Blue Ribbon Charity
People who wish to make a donation or discuss
Ball committee. From the left, Vicky Carter, Eileen Sumner, Sheila Bailey, Anne Huson and Anne Geldard. (s)
bid to help stop child deaths
RIBBLE Valley primary school pupils are helping to vaccinate children living on the other side of the world against fatal childhood dis eases. Children from six local pri
asked pupils to design the front cover of a brochure, which will be handed out to 300 guests at an event called The Blue Rib bon Ball being held in May next year. Taking place at the Dunken
halgh Hotel, Clayton le Moors, the ball aims to raise £25,000 towards the Ethiopia Cold Chain Project, which will improve the delivery network of vaccines against fatal child hood diseases throughout the country.
Two of the ball’s committee members, retired district nurse
• Anne Geldard and Dr Sheila Bailey, from Clitheroe Health Centre’s Castle Medical Group, went to speak to pupils to tell them about the work th a t UNICEF does and to explain specifically about proj ect. All the entrants, 370 of them in total, donated 50p to the cause before designing their brochure covers. These were then judged with a winner selected from each .of the schools that took part before
mary schools have played an important part in helping to finance a UNICEF vaccina tion project in Ethiopia by entering an art competition. The competition’s organisers
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an overall winner was chosen. Prizes were presented by
local sculptor Clare Bigger to the overall winner Lucy Cay- ton from St Leonard’s C of E Primary School in Langho at a Winter 06 Fashion Show. Organised by Lee Carter Health Studio, Lowergate, Clitheroe, the show, which attracted more than 200 peo ple, was held at St Michael and St John’s Social Centre last
Wednesday and raised £1,000 for UNICEF. Apart from a fashion show of winter sports wear, there was
also demonstrations by salsa
dancers, beauty therapists and a raffle. Lucy was presented with a
digital camera, which was sponsored by Boots the Chemist in Clitheroe, for her winning entry, while the run- ners-up -Lucy Collinge from St Michael and St John’s RC Pri mary School, Sam Gould-Woo- ley from Edisford Primary school, Ishbel Aitken from Pendle Primary School, all Llitheroe, Sam Burnett from St Peter’s CE School, Simon- stone, and Amy Judge from St
John’s CE Primary School, Read — received £10 Wool-
worths vouchers. All the winning designs are
on display in Dyson’s Art Shop, Moor Lane, Clitheroe, this week, which is framing the best entry from each of the six schools. Next week, they will be displayed a t Lee Carter | Health Studio, Lowergate, Clitheroe. Our picture shows children
from local primary schools in Clitheroe who designed a cover for the UNICEF charity ball brochure. (S221106/3)
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