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Tasmanian boy sews a teddy bear every day for charity
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Tasmanian boy sews a teddy bear every day for charity
http://www.9news.com.au/good-news/2016/10/03/08/55/boy-who-sews-teddy-bears-every-day-for-charity-gets-massive-surprise
"He jumps every hurdle, he puts light in dark situations, he's magic."
That's how Sonya Whittaker describes her 12-year-old son Campbell Remess, who spends his free time sewing teddy bears for charity.
Campbell, from Acton Park in Hobart, Tasmania, was inspired to create the bears after he asked his parents if he could buy Christmas presents for kids in hospital, but was told it would cost too much money.
He then decided to create the gifts himself, and vowed he would make one a day - 365 a year - and give them all away to charity.
His bears have been sent to people in need of comfort around the world, from patients suffering from cancer in Australian hospitals to victims of terror attacks in Paris and Brussels.
This morning Campbell was treated to a surprise of his own, when the TODAY Show's Stevie Jacobs showed up at his door to announce he had been declared the first of the program's "Little Heroes".
TODAY teamed up with Qantas to give the family of 11 tickets to go to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, plus accommodation, plus car hire and tickets to Australia Zoo, and $1000 cash.
He will also get a chance to visit the Queensland teddy bear workshop Fur Addiction.
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Tasmanian boy sews a teddy bear every day for charity
I spent a week in Tasmania last year working with the local people on various charitable projects and I have to say they are some of the nicest people I have ever met.
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Dani
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