# Accident to child at GDBA's Shades for a Day campaign

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/07/20/accident-child-gdba039s-shades-day-campaign/
- Published: 2004-07-20T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Accidents do happen at fundraising events, as Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
discovered this month.**

Ic Southlondon reports that a seven-year-old boy had to have surgery to his eye 
after he tripped and fell in his school playground wearing sunglasses as part of
the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association’s (GDBA) Shades for a Day campaign.

Connor Clitheroe was one of an estimated 250,000 people who took part in the day,
when people wear sunglasses at work or school and make a donation to GDBA. Children
participating need parental consent. Money raised by schoolchildren is split equally
between GDBA and the school.

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