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Meet the three grieving daughters who've made it their mission to install defibrillators across Sunderland
Sunderland Echo
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23/10/2024
Liza Hills, Paula Thompson and Gemma Appleby are hoping to raise £10,000 to install six defibrillators across Sunderland.
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Okay, and Leah, I know you've launched the Heart Warriors campaign to get some defibrillators
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installed in the local area, so why were you so keen to get involved in this campaign?
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Well, initially Lisa contacted us all and started the ball rolling with Heart Warriors.
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She lost her mum at Australia Tower, I lost my dad who collapsed on the street, and Gemma
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lost her mum as well. So we got together and decided to raise money for heart defibrillators
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that could have made a difference and saved our parents' lives. Like anyone out there,
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we want to put these in local areas so if anyone that you love or know or a member of
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your family can literally, if they collapse with a heart attack or heart problems, you'll
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know where the defibrillator is, you can access it, it's self explanatory, and you can save
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their life and not go through what we have.
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And what fundraising have you done so far?
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So far we've did a bike park at V&M's in Pallion, we did the Teesside Three Peaks where 17 busk
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climbed Roseby Chobham, Captain Cook's and Highcliffe NAB, and we were also rewarded
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at the end with a nice little buffet courtesy of my friend Leanne Stevenson. And we have
01:25
a fantastic charity night which is at the Lakeside Club, which is just over there, on
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the 1st of November where we have some fantastic raffle prizes, bingo, and a live singer, Louis
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Simpson Music, will be playing as well.
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And how much are you looking to raise in total to get these defibrillators?
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We're raising up to £10,000 because we don't just want to get them at the tower blocks
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at the Lakeside Village, I want to get one down at Hendon Valley Library for my dad,
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we want to get one next to Morrison's for Gemma's mum, where she was from. We're all
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putting them in the name and honour of our parents as well. We are looking to put them
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in other tower blocks where we've got people over 40s in tower blocks, high risk of heart
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disease, but as you know anybody can drop down with a heart attack or heart problem
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from young ages. And also down the east end of Sunderland and over the water on the north
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side, but all in all we want to get them all over Sunderland and we want to save a life.
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We want to bring awareness and education because I feel like that's not enough at the moment
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for people, so it needs to be highlighted.
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