Care home backing Indian kids' operations.YOUNGSTERS born with cleft palates are to undergo corrective surgery thanks to the efforts of residents at a Wrexham care home. Residents of Penybryn, part of the Pendine Care organisation, are putting their artistic talents to good use by supporting the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Blue Peter Christmas appeal. The Send a Smile campaign aims to allow hundreds of children in India with cleft lips and palates a new start. T-shirts will be turned into the gowns the youngsters wear. These normally cost around pounds 3 to make. For each gown donated, the charity can divert that money to the pounds 150 cost of another cleft op. Blue Peter bosses aim to collect 20,000 gowns within six weeks. If they succeed, it will pay for an entire two-week-long medical project in Guwahati, north east India, in December, treating hundreds of children. Stars such as Jonathan Ross, Bruce Forsyth Bruce Forsyth, CBE (born Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson on 22 February 1928, is a British showman and entertainer who achieved celebrity on the show Sunday Night at the London Palladium and Alesha Dixon have already pledged their support and many have designed T-shirts to be turned into gowns. The show will demonstrate how to snip and tie the shirt into a gown. The idea of backing the appeal came from Viv Robertson, a housekeeper at Penybryn, whose own son Jamie Marsh  This article or section is an autobiography, or has been extensively edited by the subject, and may not conform to Wikipedia's NPOV policy.Please see the relevant discussion on the . , now 12, was born with a cleft palate cleft palate, incomplete fusion of bones of the palate. The cleft may be confined to the soft palate at the back of the mouth; it may include the hard palate, or roof of the mouth; or it may extend through the gum and lip, producing a gap in the teeth and a cleft . "I thought it was a great thing to support," said Viv. She suggested it to Sarah Edwards, Pendine's artist-in-residence, who agreed that not only was it a worthwhile cause but it would also be useful therapy. |
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