A TEENAGER with a rare genetic disorder affecting one in 2,000 girls is helping to raise awareness of the condition.

Fourteen-year-old Emma Browning discovered she had Turner Syndrome, which causes infertility and stunted growth, eight years ago. Emma Browning with Michael Butler who has organised the fun day for the Turner syndrome Support Society.

She will be among helpers at a special fun day at Bewdley's Severnside North on Sunday.

The Bewdley High School pupil, who spends some of her summer holidays with her grandmother Jackie Presley running a weekly Kidderminster market stall in aid of the Turner Syndrome Support Society, will be manning a tombola and refreshments stand at Sunday's extravaganza.

Emma's mum Sonya, who has been involved with TSSS since her daughter was diagnosed, has helped charity stalwart Michael Butler organise the fun day.

Mr Butler, a chef at the Little Pack Horse Pub, chose to support TSSS after working alongside Emma's grandma at the pub.

However, this is not the first time the 21-year-old chef, who has raised £2,000 for various charities since January, has worked with Emma for good causes - they generated £415 for Meningitis Research with a Stourport fun day in June.

And Sonya, of Cleobury Road, Bewdley, said she hoped the latest venture would alert people to the condition which only affects girls and is not usually detected until puberty.

"Turner Syndrome is caused by a missing chromosome and we decided to do a fun day for it because it is not very well known but affects a lot of girls," she said.

"It's amazing how many people don't know about it - it seems to be a really taboo thing which you don't hear about."

The 33-year-old mum-of-two, whose seven-year-old daughter Mollie was one of this year's Bewdley Carnival princesses, added she only found out Emma had Turner Syndrome by "pestering" doctors.

"She was always ill and I knew there was something wrong but no-one would give me any answers.

"And when they looked into it and tested for everything they came up with Turner Syndrome because of this missing chromosome."

The deputy catering manager added nine out of 10 girls with the condition have no ovaries, so IVF is likely to play an important role in her daughter's life.

Emma, who was six when she discovered she was a sufferer, has been having growth hormone injections for the last three years.

And Sonya's fianc Stuart McKenzie said the teenager took the treatment in her stride.

"She just takes it all on her shoulders pretty much and has her growth injections every day and just gets on with it," he said.

"She's coming towards the end of the course now and they will stop when she gets to a suitable height for her age."

The fun day, which will see the popular Bewdley riverside road closed off from 9am until 4pm, will include live entertainment by the Bravo Boys, a raffle and tabletop market.

A quiz night will also be held at the Little Pack Horse.

More details on Sunday's activities can be obtained by calling 07766 287513.

Information on the support society is available on 01389 380385 or by visiting www.tss.org.uk