Casey House announces award winners
LOCAL NEWS / Fundraising gala to be held on Feb 28
Krishna Rau / Toronto / Friday, February 20, 2009
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AIDS hospice Casey House will present its annual Casey Awards on Sat, Feb 28 at SnowBall 2009, the organization’s annual fundraising gala.

The 2009 winners are Richard Burzynski, Jim Shea and Jane Philpott.

Burzynski was the first executive director of the Canadian AIDS Society and was instrumental in lobbying for Canada’s first national AIDS strategy. He was also the founding executive director of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations. He was one of the speakers at the first United Nations Special Session on AIDS in 2001, at which the UN general assembly adopted its Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. Burzynski also helped found UNAIDS and continues as an advisor to the UN group.

Shea, whose award will be presented posthumously, was a founding volunteer at Casey House and a community health organizer in Ontario. Philpott spent a decade working as a physician in Niger, a West African country devastated by AIDS. In 2004 Philpott founded Give a Day, a which has raised $2 million to date for international AIDS relief agencies by encouraging donors to give one day’s pay on World AIDS Day.

The theme of this year’s SnowBall is Love and Devotion. Entertainers will include Divine Brown, ambient fusion musicians Eccodek and dance troupe Hit and Run. There will also be a silent auction featuring several travel packages and private functions catered by celebrity chefs.

To buy tickets to SnowBall call (416) 962-4040 ext 236 or visit Caseyhouse.com.



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DO NOT SUPPORT OR DONATE MONEY TO THIS PLACE!
All Casey House cares about is your money, when you are sick and broke they will hang the phone up in your ear! When I first dealt with them they told all my friends and family about my HIV status, so now I have no family that will talk to me, they kept sending registered mail to my apt and the mailman told my whole building that I have AIDS and would yell while banging at my door "REGISTERED LETTER FROM CASEY HOUSE HOSPICE CONCERNING YOUR HIV CARE!" Supporting these events like SnowBall, all you are doing is giving your money to the staff at Casey House to pay their huge wages! (If you want to help someone that is sick get off your ass and do it yourself opening your wallet will only help the over paid staff of Casey House, not change a sick persons diapers or help them bathe which is needed, don't pay Casey House staff to do nothing!) After Casey House rang up my phone and had it cut off, they screwed up my credit so I can’t get a phone at all now, then when I told them the only money I have now is from welfare they cut off all my heath care, I am not allowed to see there doctors, they called my friends and family and asked them for more money, when they couldn’t get any money from me my friends or family they closed my file, threw out my id and blocked my emails. I have had many friends that were on welfare because we sick people can’t work and Casey House would treat them like crap because they didn’t have money and now they are dead! I am sure the entertainers of snowball all mean well but I would ask you to please leave your wallet at home if you decide to go to these events and for Casey House to give out awards at this event? I would be in jail if I were doing what Casey House does to people not giving out awards! Instead of going to these events and giving high paid staff more money bring someone you know who is sick some food, let them know they are not alone and you are there for them, I need someone to wipe my ass not give some
Steve, Toronto Ontario
03/30/09 10:49 AM EST
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