Plugging Spread the Net’s slogan – “1 Net. 10 Bucks. Saves lives.” – comedian Rick Mercer announced the high school and the university that raised the most money during this year’s Spread the Net Student Challenge that ended last month.
Since 2006, comedian Rick Mercer and philanthropist Belinda Stronach’s Spread the Net organisation has been working with UNICEF Canada to purchase and distribute insecticide-treated bed nets throughout Africa, where those most at risk of death from malaria are children under the age of five.
Belinda Stronach will host a fundraising event called Live To Tell in support of a new, world-leading breast cancer centre at Canada’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Singer Sheryl Crow, a breast cancer survivor like Stronach, will perform at the event on May 8.
Elton John
Annie Lennox
Bill Clinton
Bono
Paul McCartney
Sting
George Clooney
Ellen DeGeneres
UNICEF
Red Cross
PETA
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Elton John AIDS Foundation
Stand Up To Cancer