PRHC Foundation Mombassadors Support PRHC’s Tiniest Patients With $42,000 Donation
/The Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation Mombassadors announced their annual fundraising total and presented the PRHC Foundation with a cheque for $42,041 to purchase lifesaving equipment for PRHC’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
With the support of the community, the local group of fundraisers was able to make their donation despite the cancellation of their main annual event, Girls Night Out. The Spring 2020 event was tentatively rescheduled for September 18th, but was ultimately cancelled earlier in the month due to the restrictions resulting from COVID-19.
2019/2020 PRHC Foundation Mombassadors celebrate their donation to the PRHC Foundation (while maintaining their social bubbles). From left: Erin Marshall, Sarah McDougall Perrin, Emily Kingdon, Mary Kingdon, Ashley Prentice, Laura Montague, Marcy D’Alessandro, Hayley Vogler, Grace Reynolds, Kate Ahrens (Photo courtesy PRHC Foundation)
“It was a heart-breaking decision for us to cancel Girls Night Out, especially since babies continue to be born every day at PRHC, and almost one in four of them will need critical care in the NICU during the first moments, days, weeks or even months of their lives,” says the Mombassadors’ 2020 Chair, Marcy D'Alessandro. “That is why it was so important to us that we do our best to raise as much as we could this year in spite of having to cancel, directing our support to funding lifesaving equipment for PRHC’s NICU.”
The PRHC Foundation Mombassadors are grateful for all the generous community support they received. “We were so touched by the generosity of our community,” adds D’Alessandro. “The majority of our Girls Night Out sponsors—including our title sponsor, Full Tilt Cycle—elected to maintain their donations. In addition, many of the Girls Night Out ticket holders opted to donate the cost of their ticket. This says a lot about the character of our community.”
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