Taxi driver’s charity walk plan
DARREN PLANS SPONSORED EVENT FROM ROKER TO SOUTH SHIELDS FOR CHILD DEATH SUPPORT GROUP
A taxi driver will be putting on hiswalkingshoestoraisecash for a children’s charity.
Darren Murphy, 33, from Jarrow, has organised a walk from Sunderland to South Shields and will be joined by more than 40 adults, children and family members to raise funds for the charity 4louis.
Darren, who works for Kens Mini Bus Services, in South Shields, says he is giving something back after his niece Ebony-Jade Mitchell passed away two years ago at just one day old and the charity supported her parents and siblings.
He said: “This walk is to help other families and the charity. They helped out my family a lot when Ebony-Jade passedawayandIwanttohelp them support other families”.
Thecharitysupportsfamilies who have suffered the loss of children, infants or stillbirth, and provides hospitals across the country with memoryboxesforfamilieswhohave lost their baby.
Kirsty McGurrell, from Houghton-le-Spring, founded the charity after losing a baby boy, Louis, to a stillbirth in 2009.
4louis, based in Bridgewater Road, Washington, is family-runandreliesonvolunteers to supply memory boxes across the UK.
Eachmemoryboxhasbeen created for families to capture keepsakes, including, a curl box to save a lock of hair, a kit to capture imprints of hands andfeetininkandclay,andtwo teddy bears, one for baby and one for the family.
The walk will begin at 2pm on August 31 from Roker Cafe, in Sunderland, and finish at South Shields, with a break on the way to have a picnic with the children.
To take part in the walk or make a donation, call Darren on 07581 471 512. For more information on the charity, visit www.4louis.co.uk.