A GROUP of sponsored walkers have donated £150 of their hard earned fundraising money to the Help Hannah Face the Future Appeal.
The five colleagues from the PRC Desoto factory, in Shildon, raised a total of £450 by walking 36 miles across the North Yorkshire Moors in May.
Although the team had already given most of the sponsorship money to local charities, they decided to donate the remaining £150 after reading about Hannah Maxwell-Jones' plight in The Northern Echo.
The little girl, from Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, who celebrated her second birthday yesterday, is expected to need five operations to improve the disfigurement to her face.
And this week, The Northern Echo's Help Hannah Face the Future Appeal reached £30,000, topping the £20,000 target needed to send her to America for pioneering surgery.
Sponsored walker Kevin Mitchell said: "We thought it would be a wonderful way to help a local girl have a happier Christmas."
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