HEALTH workers in Sedgefield extended festive cheer to their counterparts in needy communities by supporting an international aid charity.
Instead of sending Christmas cards to each other, colleagues from Sedgefield Primary Care Trust's Public Health Improvement Team (Phit) decided to donate the money they would have spent to Oxfam.
The group hoped to raised £38 to support the training of a community health worker in hygiene, counselling and basic health care advice.
However, the team exceeded its original target and raised £90.50, enabling them to also support the training of a midwife and to provide school meals to feed 100 children for a day.
A Phit spokesperson said: "This simple and worthwhile initiative has helped people living in disadvantaged communities to be able to access basic health care.
"The team thought it would nice, as well as appropriate, for one public health team to support another health practitioner in a disadvantaged community."
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