Dubbo Inner Wheel is making Christmas more bearable for sick children.
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This week three members of the club delivered six toy bears dressed as clowns to the children's ward of Dubbo Hospital.
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The bears will be given to young patients discharged from hospital before Santa Claus packs his sleigh.
"We hope they bring a little bit of enjoyment and pleasure," Dubbo Inner Wheel spokeswoman Cheryl Pfeiffer said.
"Bears and kids are a very good fit."
Clinical nurse educator in the ward, Rachel Edwards, thanked the club for the gift.
"We are very grateful to receive the donation of bears..which will give the children something to love as they go home over Christmas time," she said.
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Mrs Edwards said there were plenty of people in Australia who could not afford presents and children who "wake up to nothing".
Patient Amber Collins, 18, admired the bears after being shown them by Mrs Pfeiffer and fellow Inner Wheel members Denise Carmichael and Barbara Norrie.
"They would be very appealing to children," the young patient said.
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Mrs Pfeiffer said the bears had the Cord Blood Research emblem on their heels.
Inner Wheel clubs raise money for the Inner Wheel Australia Foundation Trust which provides grants to researchers working with cord blood stem cells in the field of leukaemia and many other blood disorders.
Inner Wheel has more than 100,000 members across 104 countries.