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Anna McAree

Derry Girls easter egg a homage to charity close to home


Many of us sat down to enjoy the first instalment of the final season of Derry Girls last week.

Each episode has plenty of hidden references and things you may not catch the first time around.

One little easter egg which has featured in the build-up to the final season in promotional photos and in the episodes themselves have an incredibly special connection to an important charity close to home.

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Eagle-eyes fans may have spotted orange bracelets on the gang's wrists. These bracelets are Hope bracelets from Derry charity Children in Crossfire.

Derry Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson is a Schools Ambassador of the charity, who have now made their own mark on the hit Channel 4 comedy.

Saoirse-Monica became an ambassador for the charity last year, and established her own fundraiser challenge to help the charity's amazing efforts around the world.

Richard Moore, Executive Director of Children In Crossfire and Schools Ambassador Saoirse-Monica Jackson wearing their Hope bracelets (Declan Roughan / Press Eye)

The star donated a signed copy of an original script from episode one of Derry Girls, signed by cast and writer Lisa McGee. The script was auctioned at a fundraising event and managed to raise £1,600 for the charity.

The bracelets were handmade by the Childhood Development Organisation, Children in Crossfire's grassroots partner in Tanzania’s Morogoro region.

The bracelets can be purchased on the Children in Crossfire website.

All proceeds of purchases of the bracelets will be invested in the pre-school education programme that CDO and Children in Crossfire deliver together.

Children in Crossfire was founded in 1996 by Richard Moore who was blinded as a 10 year old boy in 1972.

The charity supports projects helping some of the most vulnerable children on the planet that suffer from the injustice of poverty.

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