'Bunny' makes the world go round

YOUNGSTERS turned up at their playgroup dressed as Easter bunnies to help sick children in South Africa.

Members of the Prince Charles Playgroup, in north Southwick, paid 2 to wear their bunny outfits and each donated a teddy bear, which will be taken to the G. J. Cooke Children's Hospital in Natal, South Africa, by staff member Sera Ring on Wednesday and given to a ward which deals with children suffering from HIV.

Sera's dad and step-mum live in South Africa and work with a group of young people who are planning to decorate the hospital ward and create a playground.

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The money raised by the playgroup will go towards that work.

Sera said: "The children out there literally have nothing. So my suitcase will be packed full of teddies which I will take out there and distribute."

The playgroup, which meets five mornings a week at the community hall in Prince Charles Close, is also planning to twin with a pre-school group in South Africa.

Playgroup manageress Steph Wood said: "We have been telling the youngsters here about how many of the children in hospital in South Africa have no toys and explaining where their teddies will be going."