Children’s Wish Foundation

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Hello fellow Fly Fisherman!

 

Many of you probably don’t know me, and if you have read what i've said on the boards some might not even like me. Haha but this is life, but I have had the pleasure to meet some of you, which has been a great experience. Anyways my name is Dustin and I have met some of you at wholesale sports as I work the odd day or two in the fly shop there. Anyways onto the point of this post!

 

I am a Student at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. Currently we are working with the Children’s Wish Foundation and Selling Smiles 101 to help raise money to send 2 little girls from Calgary who unfortunately have been diagnosed with Leukemia to Disneyland. Just to give you some information about these 2 beautiful girls, their names are Madison, and Ryane both of which are 5 years old. Madison was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 2 and has had a long and hard battle to overcome this hardship, while Ryane has found to have a cancerous tumor in her stomach at the age of 3 and has gone through equally as much. As fate would have it these 2 girls shared the same room at our wonderful Children’s Hospital and also have had the pleasure of being camp buddies at Cancer camp. I’m pleased to say that both girls have currently beat cancer, but as many of us know there is always a possibility of this deadly disease returning. Both these girls have gone through hardships many of us will never hopefully have to deal with, and unfortunately some of you likely have. On to a lighter note, these girls have both qualified to have a wish granted by the Children’s Wish Foundation and have asked to both be sent together and with their family’s to Disney Land. This is awesome and I am doing everything in my power to reach out to people to help this cause. What it is that we are doing is taking both donations, and selling high quality knifes from a company called Cutco, I'm sure many of you have heard of these knives as they are of the highest quality. Anyways the money that would usually be received from the salesperson in terms of commission is being donated directly to the Children’s wish foundation. The 2nd thing I am doing is accepting any donations, all donations that are $25 and above receive a CWF tax receipt. I don’t expect to sell anything to anyone and that’s not what I am trying to accomplish. I know that many members of the fly fishing community are pillars of our community and are always willing to help a cause out. Anyways I will leave it at that, and anyone who is interested is welcome to drop me a PM and inquire about anything they need to know and feel free to reply.

 

Ill leave you with that and attach a couple images of the Girls and an article of the past success of this partnership.

 

Thanks for your time

 

Dustin

 

Oh and please excuse my grammar, I'm a Finance Major