MODEL NELL SPURS
ON SCHOOL RACE
Copyright 2004 Middleton Guardian
[ September 30th 2004 ]
Pupils
at North Manchester High School for Boys took
to the track alongside a supermodel for a sponsored
walk and run, to raise money for a skin disease
charity. More than 100 students took part in the
school's charity event, to raise money for DebRA,
the organisation which helps sufferers of the
rare but very painful skin condition Epidermolysis
Bullosa.
Scott
Schofield, a Year 10 pupil at the Charlestown
Road school, suffers with EB, and the efforts
of his fellow pupils are expected to raise more
than £2,000 for DebRA, to help fund research into
what is currently an incurable illness. Those
affected by EB have flesh that is so fragile that
any knock or rub can cause very painful blistering,
tearing and permanent damage. As well as helping
their friend to complete 10 laps of the running
track at Boggart Hole Clough, the students had
another reason to take part, as supermodel, jungle
survivor and former Tomb Raider Nell McAndrew
came along to oversee proceedings.
Nell,
who ran this year's London Marathon in aid of
DebRA, turned up to make sure each student completed
the 2½-mile course and spent hours afterwards
signing hundreds of autographs on the certificates
that each of the youngsters received at the finishing
line.
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