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APC Sends A Smile For Blue Peter



APC Overnight has teamed up with BBC’s Blue Peter Appeal to help deliver an anticipated 20,000 hospital gowns made from T-shirts donated by UK children to the charity Operation Smile.

The Appeal needed partners who had a nationwide presence to act as collection points, and so we were delighted that our network of depots offered the ideal solution. Along with PC World and Currys, APC Overnight depots will offer Blue Peter viewers a local point to hand over their gowns, which we will transport to the charity’s HQ in London.

Operation Smile is an amazing charity, set up to offer free facial reconstruction surgery – for example the repair of cleft lips and palates – to children around the world. These operations can literally transform a child’s life – many children having become isolated for fear of ridicule, which leads to them missing out on friends and education. Over the past 27 years, the charity has carried out more than 135,000 such operations in 42 countries, and they estimate that a cleft lip can be repaired for around £150 in just 45 minutes of surgery.

APC Overnight Chairman Quentin Abel spoke for us all when he said: “We are thrilled to be involved with the Blue Peter Send a Smile Appeal, and to be able to give practical help to such an extremely worthwhile cause.”

To find out more about the charity, click here.

 
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