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SWEET LISA'S LAUNCHES OPERATION SWEET SMILE FUNDRAISER
Custom Pastry Shop in Greenwich offering donation from sales to benefit children's charity during month of June
GREENWICH, Ct. - June 1, 2013 - Lisa and Stephen Maronian, owners of Sweet Lisa's Exquisite Cakes in Greenwich, CT, announces the shop’s first "Operation Sweet Smiles" campaign with Operation Smile, an international children’s medical charity.
During the month of June, 10 percent of Sweet Lisa's sales will be donated to Operation Smile to anyone who mentions "OPERATION SMILE"when they place an order, giving new smiles to children worldwide suffering from cleft lip or cleft palate.
Besides a passion for creating custom pastry masterpieces that evoke smiles and amazement, Lisa and Stephen also love to pay-it-forward by donating cakes, cookies, cupcakes and other sweet treats for numerous charity events and fundraisers throughout the year. So working with Operation Smile was a natural fit.
"This is a cause close to our hearts because we know firsthand the power of a smile to a child for our close personal friends." Lisa Maronian said. "We have attended an Operation Smile Benefit previously at Lisa and Mat Lori's home and were moved by the work of their family with Operation Smile and the compassion of the medical volunteers. It is our honor and privilege to help."
The Lori Family, who have been friends with the Maronians for more than nine years, have been supporters of Operation Smile for the past four years. The Lori's three sons, Zachary, Luke and Griffin, who were all born with a condition called facial paralysis. Their surgeon who performed life changing transplant surgery is also a medical volunteer for Operation Smile. This inspired Lisa in 2011 to launched an international fundraising initiative with Operation Smile called The Three Little Bears, named after her children. To learn more about the Lori Family's efforts with Operation Smile and The Three Little Bears initiative, you can visit www.operationsmile.org/bears.
Every three minutes, a child is born with a cleft condition, it is estimated One in 10 children born with a cleft dies before their first birthday. Children born with clefts are often unable to eat, speak, socialize or smile. With the help of medical volunteers and generous supporters, Operation Smile provides free surgeries for children around the world to heal their smiles and transform their lives. For as little as $240, the cost of a cleft lip surgery, a child’s life can be changed forever.
Sweet Lisa's Exquisite Cakes is located at 3 Field Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807 and is open Tuesday through Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday from 9am-3pm. They are closed Sunday and Monday. Their number is 203-869-9545. No appointment is necessary to place an order at the shop or over the phone except for Wedding and Mitzvah cakes. You can go to www.sweetlisas.com or find them on Facebook.com/SweetLisas.
About Sweet Lisa's Exquisite Cakes (www.sweetlisas.com)
Sweet Lisa’s Exquisite Cakes is an award-winning, high-end, custom pastry shop located in Greenwich, CT., owned and operated by Lisa & Stephen Maronian. Since 1993, Sweet Lisa’s has created their edible masterpieces for everything from wedding and mitzvahs, to parties and events of all occasions. They boast an impressive clientele and donate their talents to worthy causes. They have appeared on Food Network Cake Challenge and have had their award winning gingerbread houses on NBC’s Today Show as well as appeared in many major publications. Sweet Lisa’s offers the best tasting pastries almost too pretty to eat, but, that’s why they’re motto is “Not Just Another Pretty Cake”.
About Operation Smile (www.operationsmile.org)
Operation Smile, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, is an international children’s medical charity with a presence in more than 60 countries, whose network of more than 5,000 medical volunteers from over 80 countries is dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children. Since its founding in 1982, Operation Smile has provided more than 3.5 million healthcare evaluations and conducted over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities, as well as patients suffering from burns. To build long-term self-sufficiency in developing countries, Operation Smile trains doctors and local medical professionals in its partner countries so they are empowered to treat their own local communities, donates medical equipment and supplies, and provides year-round medical treatment through its worldwide Comprehensive Care Centers.
About Lisa Lori (www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-lori)
Lisa Lori is a writer, wife, mother and PR consultant. She writes frequently about parenting, philanthropy, and children with disabilities. She is a writer for the Huffington Post and contributes regularly to a variety of other outlets. In 2011, Lisa and her friend designer Kathy Van Zeeland, launched The Three Little Bears, an international fundraising initiative with Operation Smile which gives a child a bear going into surgery on medical missions for a $240 donation and a donor receives a bear as well. Lisa and her husband Mat live in Greenwich, CT with their three sons.
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