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Foundation president & CEO Chuck LaFlèche at the lottery kickoff.
‘For both of us, we take the net proceeds and we use it to help kids’
Raising money for the Manitoba Institute of Child Health and for the St-Boniface Hospital Research Centre — which both rely heav- ily on private donors — is critical for both hospitals. Much of the lottery’s earnings also go towards equipment — any- thing from bassinets for newborns to EKG/ECG machines and MRI technology, Prout says. “With those proceeds, we’re buying a piece of equipment that will serve a lot of children and that will last a long period of time. So you will help literally hundreds, if not thousands, of kids with each purchase of a lottery ticket.” With 115,000 patients coming through the Children’s Hospital and 5,700 births at St-Boniface Hospital each year, Prout says it only makes sense that the two foundations partner up to create the ul- timate lottery in support of kids — something they’ve done for the past three years. Cont’d on page 52
There are prizes totalling $2.2 million, plus a 50/50 PLUS prize of up to $600,000. Also for the first time, one of the Early Bird Dream prize options is a condo — a luxu- rious StreetSide Developments abode in the Exchange District. “There are an estimated 34,000 buyers and 4,300 prizes to win – that’s an eight to one ratio” LaFlèche says. As for the odds that you’ll make a difference in a child’s life by purchasing a ticket? Well, that’s guaranteed. “For both of us, we take the net proceeds and we use it to help kids,” says Lawrence Prout, president & CEO of Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba. “The funds are spent both on pediatric research and clinical, which is inside the hospital.”
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