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There's An Elephant's Weight In The Room For World Vision
27 August 2010
11:47am Thursday 19th August 2010
By Miranda Newey - published in the Warrington Guardian
There's an elephant's weight in the room for charity
THE weight of an elephant was lifted to give a charity a cash injection.
Steve Edwards, aged 24, a deputy general manager at The Student Support Centre on Fir Tree Close, Stretton, ploughed in the pounds for World Vision’ Elephant Deterrent Project in Nalitabari, Bangladesh. 
Steve Edwards, deputy manager at The Student Support Centre (Cheshire) lifts the weight of an elephant for World Vision
He lifted the equivalent of an elephant by raising 20kg weights two hundred times in under an hour – equal to four tonnes.
The money raised will fund special lights which will deter the elephants from entering a village as 30 homes have been destroyed this year by animals.
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