Sophie Delezio hits the catwalk

Sophie Delezio’s foray into the world of modelling will help the charity that helped save her life so many years ago.

Having recently completed a deportment course with June Dally Watkins, Sophie will support Telstra Child Flight at their upcoming fundraiser, Wine Women & Shoes, on Friday 18 September at Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, near Redfern.

“Little Sophie” became a household name when at two years of age a car ploughed into her child care centre at Fairlight and caught fire. The toddler sustained horrific injuries and required airlifting by Telstra Child Flight from the Royal North Shore hospital to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

“It took 6.5 minutes for the trip to Westmead from Royal North Shore. We wouldn’t have our Sophie if it wasn’t for Telstra Child Flight.” said Sophie’s father, Ron Delezio.

Whenever Telstra Child Flight flies, it is because the life of a child or baby is in jeopardy. As the only emergency helicopter service just for kids in the southern hemisphere, Telstra Child Flight has been in operation in NSW and the ACT for twenty years. On average one critically ill or injured child or baby per day is airlifted from a regional or urban hospital and delivered to emergency paediatric or neonatal intensive care at one of a handful of metropolitan hospitals in NSW and the ACT with the appropriate facilities. This essential service, which is free to the families who need it, is funded by corporate sponsorship and the government but an average shortfall of $1.5million per year must be raised by other means.

The Wine Women & Shoes Degustation Cocktail Party is to help raise those funds and is supported by June Dally Watkins, whose professional modelling graduates, along with Sophie Delezio, will grace the catwalk.

For more information call 02 9633 8701.

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