Sponsored flight for disabled

Press, 3 June 1981, Page 11

Sponsored flight for disabled

Menton

Sponsors are being invited to send 380 disabled children on a flight around the country in Air New Zealand’s new Boeing 747, as part of the fund-raising activities for Telethon later this month. The project is expected to raise about $190,000 for the Telethon appeal, with sponsorship at the rate of $5OO a seat. People may sponsor one or more children on the flight, which will last about 90 minutes. The children will be treated to a meal and continuous entertainment. They will be accompanied by television personalities, a

film crew. Air New Zealand cabin crew, and others trained in the care of children. All of them will give their time free. At the end of the flight, the children will receive a bag of presents. The date of the flight has not yet been confirmed, but it ■ is expected to be some time after Telethon, when all seats have been sponsored. So far. one firm has

agreed to a $5OO sponsorship. All donations will be acknowledged on the Telethon broadcast on June 27 and 28. A competition for schools to raise funds for Telethon is being screened on TVI every Friday afternoon in the “After School” programme. The staff and pupils of schools throughout New Zealand have alwavs plaved a leading role in Telethon fund-raising, activities since the 24-hour fund-raising marathon began in 1975. The pumpkin was given to Woolworths by Mr R. Odgers, and it was grown in Belfast.