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Hundreds of Camp Trillium kids benefit
Foodie/sailing event sends over $2M to childhood cancer centre
100% of funds raised go to the children
Perfect June weather for dining al fresco and for a pleasant afternoon sail came as a relief to over 200 Toronto corporate people as they headed over to Hanlan’s Point for a unique charity event. Rain would have put more than a damper on this special occasion.
Set Sail for Hope, an annual fundraiser for the past 23 years, invited 21 lucky Toronto organisations to make a donation to Camp Trillium in exchange for a mind-blowingly different event: no rubber chicken, no golf challenges, no silent auctions. Just an exquisite day out. with gourmet food and luxury yachts.
The most unusual aspect of this exclusive annual event is that absolutely no money is spent on producing it – time, food, supplies, staff, luxury yachts and crew are all donated. So, of the $181,000 raised in 2010 for Camp Trillium, can you guess how much went to the children that benefit from this well-run childhood cancer centre? All of it. Yes, 100%. The bottom line is that, this year, Set Sail for Hope directly benefits about 240 children with cancer, enabling them to have sensational camp experiences (along with their families) in what may be, for some kids, their last summer.
Put together each year by a mottley crew of a dozen volunteers, the event attracts 21 of Toronto’s top restaurants, 21 luxury yachts and 21 of Toronto’s most generous corporations. Add together great weather, multi-course gourmet al fresco lunches, entertainment and a spectacular pleasure sail on a 45ft plus sailboat, and you have a success on your hands.
It is such a well respected event, with so much Toronto support, that Mayor Miller and Toronto City Council proclaimed Set Sail for Hope Day in Toronto.
Set Sail for Hope has raised over $2 million for Camp Trillium in all, and has done so through a remarkable event. Interested in getting involved, booking a group for 2010, or making a donation? Please visit the website.
Participating caterers:
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ua Fine Food, Renaissance Down Town, Horseshoe Valley Resort, Delta Meadowvale Hotel, Ashbridge’s Bay Yacht Club, Epic – Fairmont Royal York, King Street Food/Buca, International Centre, Brassaii, Mayes Brothers, Easton Group Of Hotels, The Miller Tavern, Westin Harbour Castle, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, One King West, Toronto Congress Centre, Sheraton Toronto, Delta Chelsea Hotel, Rodney’s Oyster House, Royal Canadian Yacht Club
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In Bolvia
Concluding: helping young Bolivians
by Dayle Haddon
This is the final part of my Bolivia blog. While there, the problems I witnessed – abandonment of children and the brutal view on HIV/AIDS and it’s victims- are the outgrowth of the larger problem of extreme poverty. Bolivia is the poorest country in South America and has the largest gap between the rich and the poor. More than 45% of the children and 60% of the country live in on less than a dollar a day, which is defined as extreme poverty by the World Bank. One of the direct effects of extreme poverty is maternal health and child mortality. With more than 15,000 children dying each year under the age of one, 7,500 before they are one month old and 5% of mothers dying in childbirth, it only makes the need to help more urgent.
Through my ongoing work with UNICEF, I have learned about some of the global community’s efforts to quell extreme poverty. There is hope on that front. But how can we transfer some of the money in the developed world to little known places such as Bolivia? I look to the G8 Summit to be held in Canada in June of this year. The Millennium Goals will be under discussion at the summit and will address issues such as the eradication of poverty, provision of medical support and education to the poorest countries.
Remarkably, almost every Millennium Goal relates to what is happening in Bolivia today. If Bolivia can be lifted out of such endemic poverty, it would positively affect all of South America. We don’t have the luxury to turn our backs. We, as countries are inestimably intertwined. It behooves us all to help provide the opportunities to the poorer countries, giving them the chance to stabilize and create sustainable internal infrastructure to participate and realize their own potential. As they do, then we too will inevitably reap the benefits.
MILLENNIUM GOALS
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
(The last part of my ‘trip report’ appears on the next pages.)
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