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The Childhood Cancer Foundation - Candlelighters Canada is proud
to announce the 1st Annual Pharmaceutical Challenge Campaign.
This campaign enables Canada’s pharmaceutical industry to participate in
one of the most important health-related causes in Canada today - the
elimination of childhood cancer!
Pfizer Canada steps up to the
challenge
and makes the inaugural donation
We are asking Canada’s Pharmaceutical companies to
join us in our battle against childhood cancer. Responding to this urgent
call for support, Pfizer Canada has
made a $25,000 lead donation to “kick off” this campaign. “Supporting
this campaign was not only an easy decision, but also an honour.” says
Theresa Firestone, V.P. of Government and Public Affairs for Pfizer
Canada. “It ties into our role as one of the leading pharmaceutical
research companies in this country and also as a corporation that
recognizes its responsibility to our communities and their children.
Pfizer is proud to issue this challenge to the Canadian pharmaceutical
industry: match our donation of $25,000 and change the life of a child
with cancer.”
“Support from the corporate community, pharmaceutical
companies in particular, is key to the achievement of our research
goals,” notes Kal Tobias, President & CEO of the Childhood Cancer
Foundation. “I would like to thank Pfizer Canada for their generous lead
gift on this campaign and urge other pharmaceutical companies to join
Pfizer in making a gift in support of all Canadian children afflicted by
childhood cancer.”
This campaign is being launched at
a time of great importance. Our research and programming dollars are
being stretched ever more thinly by the increasing demands from treatment
centres and families across Canada. The possibilities of achieving new
breakthroughs and successes in the areas of medical research have never
been higher - we have the ability to make a difference in the lives of
over 10,000 Canadian children each year, but we simply cannot do it
without the support of caring corporate citizens.
Our goal is to raise $100,000 from the pharmaceutical
industry in 2004 to dedicate towards childhood cancer research. This
research will be conducted in association with the Council of Canadian
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Directors, who represent the 17 research
centres across the country.
For further information on making a corporate donation
to this challenge, please contact William Pace, Chief Development
Officer, at 1-800-363-1062 ext. 19.
Coming
soon…
A listing of the pharmaceutical corporations who have
supported the Childhood Cancer Foundation in our efforts.
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