57357 University Fundraising Challenge and Boston University Fundraiser Event

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Boston University Fundraiser Event this Sunday!

If you are a Boston University or Boston-area student, make sure to purchase tickets for a Hospital 57357 fundraiser show. Boston University is hosting Ahmed Ahmed for a live comedy tour this Sunday, March 4th, 2012 at 7pm at Boston University in the George Sherman Union. Tickets are $10 and all proceeds will benefit Hospital 57357 egyclub@bu.edu. Feel free to share the event with your friends on Facebook here and you share the featured flier by making copies and posting it around or emailing it to your friends.

57357 University Fundraising Challenge

Attention college students! If you haven’t already registered your campus for the University Fundraising Challenge, it’s not too late! For registration and details go to:

www.EgyptCancerNetwork.kintera.org/BUChallenge/

The Boston University Egyptian Club is challenging universities in a fundraising competition from now through April 30th, 2012. Our goal is to raise $250,000 so that we are able to provide treatment to more children with cancer in Hospital 57357. Right now, because of the large number of children applicants for cancer treatment, we are only able to service 1 in 4 Egyptian children. Are you up to the challenge to help us raise money so we can provide treatment to more children? Prizes include up to five round trip tickets to Cairo and a four star hotel included!

Please join us in this challenge. With your help, we can reach out to the 5,758 universities based in the USA to help us reach our goal. We believe in the power of numbers, and with your support we can achieve this goal. A great example of students’ initiative to fundraise for children with cancer in Hospital 57357, is when 25 million Egyptian students each donated 20 cents and together fundraised $5 Million dollars in a single day. We can do it too! Join us in this challenge so we can make sure every child with cancer in Hospital 57357 can access quality care.

www.EgyptCancerNetwork.Kintera.org/BUChallenge

On the one year anniversary of Egypt’s revolution, the Boston University Egyptian Club is challenging universities around the U.S.A in a competition to raise money for The Children’s Cancer Hospital in Egypt! This hospital, also known as 57357, is the largest and busiest pediatric cancer hospital in the world and is supported solely by private donations.  It opened its doors in 2007 and, immediately, was at full capacity.  In only five years, the survival rate for children with cancer has tripled that of other Egyptian hospitals, and is almost on par with the U.S.A. On top of that, the patients’ families are supported so they do not have to pay a single cent for the treatment of their children suffering from cancer.

Because of the large number of children applicants for cancer treatment, the hospital is only able to service 1 in 4 Egyptian children in need. The goal is to help double that capacity by 2015. Even though the hospital has been making unprecedented progress, it is at risk of losing the land granted to it by the government if it does not expand to accommodate more patients. So, we are going to raise the funds to get the design process completed and as a result, save the hospital and more children! That’s a $250,000 task. Are you up for it?

The Challenge

The terms of the challenge are simple: we are trying to raise $250,000 throughout the U.S.A

Prizes

Each prize is a trip to Cairo with airfare and hotel included. A prize will be issued each time the total collected donations reach $10,000 increments. Recipients of prizes will be “democratically” designated by the team captain of the winning team at each collective $10,000 benchmark. Up to a total of five prizes will be distributed.

Challenge Rules

  1. Fundraising will start on January 25, 2012 and end on April 30, 2012.
  2. All teams must be affiliated with a US-based University.
  3. That’s it! Just have fun.

If you would like your university to participate, please click here.