Adele Silva visits Stagecoach Horsforth
Actress Adele Silva is best known for her role as Kelly Windsor in Emmerdale. Earlier this year she took time out of her busy schedule to visit Stagecoach Horsforth in Leeds, where she presented Cameron Small of Preston with the first ever Stagecoach Charitable Trust Award.
Despite suffering from a rare blood disorder, called Evans Syndrome, Cameron Small, aged just 13 raised over £100,000 for sick children and helped spearhead an appeal to raise £20 million for a new children's hospital. Clocking up over 900 hospital visits in his young life Small has undergone harrowing treatments, including multiple blood and platelet transfusions and four courses of chemotherapy, which have left him an insulin-dependent diabetic, needing four injections a day.
Yet, despite the trauma, he's raised more than £95,000 for Manchester Children's Hospital. He says: "When I was in hospital I was really ill and really bored because there was nothing to do."I wanted to raise money to buy things for other sick children so they wouldn't be bored like I was."
Adele Silva presented the Stagecoach Charitable Trust Award, which recognises outstanding achievement during adversity. After the presentation Silva spent time filming an item for Stagecoach.tv and chatted to the stagecoach students answering their questions about her life on stage and screen.
The full Q&A session with Adele Silva can be seen on Stagecoach.TV
Despite suffering from a rare blood disorder, called Evans Syndrome, Cameron Small, aged just 13 raised over £100,000 for sick children and helped spearhead an appeal to raise £20 million for a new children's hospital. Clocking up over 900 hospital visits in his young life Small has undergone harrowing treatments, including multiple blood and platelet transfusions and four courses of chemotherapy, which have left him an insulin-dependent diabetic, needing four injections a day.
Yet, despite the trauma, he's raised more than £95,000 for Manchester Children's Hospital. He says: "When I was in hospital I was really ill and really bored because there was nothing to do."I wanted to raise money to buy things for other sick children so they wouldn't be bored like I was."
Adele Silva presented the Stagecoach Charitable Trust Award, which recognises outstanding achievement during adversity. After the presentation Silva spent time filming an item for Stagecoach.tv and chatted to the stagecoach students answering their questions about her life on stage and screen.
The full Q&A session with Adele Silva can be seen on Stagecoach.TV
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