Face to Face campaign reveals 2024 total, October 23, 2024. (Photo by Maureen Revait) Face to Face campaign reveals 2024 total, October 23, 2024. (Photo by Maureen Revait)
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Face to Face campaign raises over $100K in 22nd year

This year's Face to Face campaign supporting Hospice of Windsor and Essex County raised over $110,000.

"I'm really not often speechless but this one I'm surprised," said John Fairley, campaign founder. "I was thinking if we just hit $100,000 that would be great but with $111,000 is just beyond belief."

All the money raised goes towards the Fairley Family Transportation program and G.E.N.I.E. program.

"This program itself is not funded so these dollars directly support this program and the program wouldn't be possible without our community believing in it. The fact that our community believes enough to fundraise $111,203 this year really just shows how much they believe in and appreciate the program," said Katharen Bortolin, Executive Director of the Hospice of Windsor and Essex County.

The G.E.N.I.E program takes patients on last-wish trips throughout the region by way of a refurbished ambulance with the help of Essex Windsor EMS volunteers. In the past, patients have been taken to Windsor Spitfires games, Point Pelee and the Belle River pier.

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