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Sodexo team raises £6,000 for life-saving operations on Palestinian children

10th Feb 2023 - 06:00
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Sodexo’s team at Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital raised £6,000 to fund a life-saving mission organised by Leicester charity Healing Little Hearts to help five Palestinian children.

Dr Nichani and a team including surgeon Professor Massimo Caputo from Bristol Royal Hospital for Children travelled to An-Najah University Hospital in Nablus to carry out life-saving heart surgery on five Palestinian children aged between 19 months and ten-years-old over five days. Three of the operations had never been performed in the region before.

Over the course of 2022 Sodexo’s team, led by catering manager Belinda Smith, organised a series of fundraising activities for the Healing Little Hearts charity. 

Smith said: “It is hard not to be overwhelmed by the level of determination of Dr Nichani and his team, and the impact the charity has had. It is wonderful to know we are making a contribution. I want to help be a voice for Healing Little Hearts and raise awareness. It’s something I love to do.”

Global services company Sodexo aims to create ‘a better everyday for everyone to build a better life for all’. Sodexo encourages its people to volunteer and fundraise for causes aligned to the company’s own charity, Stop Hunger Foundation as well as those that are close to the hearts of individual employees.

Written by
Edward Waddell