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Since this interview, Marbella Fire Brigade has held its awards ceremony at La Cabane, in Los Monteros hotel, to pay tribute to different people and entities from the town, including Sarah Almagro. The Debra Piel de Mariposa association and Onda ... Cero Marbella were also among the recipients. The local council also plans to make Sarah an Honorary Citizen.
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"The house is just four walls. You have to get out of it, sometimes". Sitting on the sofa at home, Sarah Almagro gives her first interview after the eight difficult months which have passed since she was admitted to hospital last July in great pain ... reluctant to vaccinate their children" Sarah Almagro's parents, Ismael and Silvia, have begun a campaign to persuade the authorities to vaccinate children against all serotypes of meningococcal bacteria identified in Spain. They also want the range of ... people said hello to me in the street , I realised they were right. In a restaurant a boy kept looking at me, and then came over and said "Are you Sarah"? He was really pleased to see me, he took a photo of us.... Are you comfortable in those
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In nearly every conversation he brings up the promise he made to his daughter Sarah when she was in hospital, suffering the serious consequences of sepsis which affected her without warning and resulted in her losing her hands and feet. "I will do ... absolutely everything possible to make sure your life will be as the same as it was before," he told her. Ismael Almagro, Sarah's father, has stressed that this promise was not just about obtaining the money necessary to buy the best prostheses available ... anywhere. "It also means doing everything possible to make sure cases like this do not happen again, and for people to know about the dangers of sepsis," he said. Sarah's family is working hard to honour that commitment. They have contacted the health
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Local athletes have shown that they are not only concerned about improving their results, but they support good causes as well. Organisers have now confirmed that the charity sports weekend for Sarah Almagro, which took place between 14 and 16 ... December, raised 14,000 euros for the 'Somos tu ola' association, which is helping the 18-year-old from Marbella. Both Sarah's hands and feet had to be amputated last year after she suffered from sepsis, and her family are trying to raise the money for her ... prostheses. The councillor for Sport, Javier Mérida, says the initiative was extremely successful. Around 2,000 people contributed to the cause by buying the wristbands which were on sale to raise money for Sarah. The event began during the afternoon of
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Sarah Almagro Vallejo's life was turned upside down last July. The 18-year-old had suffered severe abdominal pain, vomiting and fever the night of 22 July and was taken to the emergency department early the next morning with suspected ... gastroenteritis. The Costa del Sol Hospital diagnosed Sarah with sepsis, which was causing her organs to fail. She spent ten days in an induced coma. As a consequence of the sepsis, Sarah lost her hands and her feet, needs dialysis several times a week and is ... the Sociedad Andaluza de Medicina Intensiva y Unidades Coronarias. Social media has allowed Sarah's story to be shared, gaining support and educating people on this deadly disease. It has also raised funds for Sarah that, once she leaves the
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Tony Bryant
The award-winning concert pianist, Sarah Lee, is to perform two concerts on the Cost del Sol next week. The internationally-acclaimed musician from South Korea, who lives in New Zealand, is currently on a European tour and these will be the only
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GEORGIE KENNY
Walking Football Spain has organised a match at the Estadio Santa María in Elviria this Saturday to raise funds for Sarah Almagro Vallejo, the 16-year-old Marbella girl who, after contracting sepsis in the summer, had to have her hands and feet ... amputated. Money raised from the Sarah Almagro Vallejo trophy will help towards the cost of new prostheses. SARAH ALMAGRO TROPHY What. Walking football tournament to help fund prostheses for local girl Sarah Almagro. Where. Estadio Santa María in Elviria. ... When. Saturday 15 December, 2pm to 4pm. Teams of nine, including one created by Sarah's uncle, will play 20-minute matches in the tournament which will run from 2pm until 4pm, with the winners receiving the Sarah Almagro Vallejo Challenge trophy for
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Nieves Castro
This year's Pedal Day, organised to encourage people to take up cycling, will be raising funds for Sarah, an 18-year-old girl from Marbella, who had her hands and feet amputated after suffering sepsis. Her family needs money to buy prostheses. ... wristbands will be sold to raise money. The organisers have also joined the #PalanteconSarah campaign. Those taking part in the event will leave Plaza del Mar at 10.30am and cycle along Avenida Ricardo Soriano before returning along the seafront. Those
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Seven-year-old Sarah Mena Panella from Rincón de la Victoria, who lost her hair three years ago due to the autoimmune disorder alopecia areata universalis, is the model for this year's spring campaign for the El Ingenio shopping centre in ... Vélez-Málaga. Sarah's mother explains how being selected as the face of the campaign, through a vote on social media, had come as a great boost to the self-esteem of her daughter who is in her second year at the María del Mar Romera primary school in Rincón. ... media,” said her mother María José Panella. She admitted that Sarah's illness had been a tough blow. “Everyone looks at her all the time in the park, in the street... everyone thinks she has cancer and is having treatment but she has no medication,”
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International in Gibraltar on 9 February and will be participating in the Walking Football World Cup in Paris in mid-May. The Gibraltar players generously contributed to the WFS's fundraiser for Marbella girl Sarah Almagro who needs prostheses after losing her