# Smile Train to raise funds throughout Wimbledon via Twitter hashtag

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/06/18/smile-train-raise-funds-throughout-wimbledon-twitter-hashtag/
- Published: 2013-06-18T07:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Smile Train, the largest cleft lip and palate nonprofit, will benefit from publicity
and fundraising during the Wimbledon Championships fortnight.

It has been selected as the charity partner to perform the coin toss at the Gentlemen's
Singles final. This will be carried out on 7 July by 11-year-old Pinki Sonkar, one
of the charity's patients. She was the subject in 2007 of the  the Oscar(R) winning
documentary short, Smile Pinki. 

Travelling from her village in India to attend the event, Pinki will also meet Smile
Train supporters during her stay in London.

## Advertisement

To make the most out of Pinki's visit to London, Smile Train is running an outdoor
advertising campaign in SW19 and a social media campaign. The charity is encourage
the public to show their support by sharing Smile Train's special [infographic for the campaign](http://www.smiletrain.org.uk/pinki),#
SmileyGraph.

Telemarketing services company InfoCision has also offered to donate £10 to Smile
Train for every "share or retweet tagged #SmileyGraph" on Twitter during the Championships.
It will donate up to $5,000. Additional tweets with the hashtag will simply help
generate further publicity for the campaign. The social media activity will of course
include channels other than Twitter.

 

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