With a major $50 million target for this year’s SAGICOR Sigma Coprorate Run, the biggest yet, the organisers have introduced a public donation platform (generosity® by Indiegogo®) in an effort to help raise funds for its 2016 beneficiaries; the Jamaica Cancer Society, the Black River Hospital Paediatric unit and Children with Cancer across the island.”We know Jamaicans in the diaspora are big supporters of the Sigma Run and by extension Jamaica so we are relying on them heavily to help raise this ambitious target for children of their home nation. Last year we experimented with a crowd funding account that helped us raise $26 million so this year we decided to try a new platform for Sigma Run to open an avenue for Jamaicans living across the world to lend assistance to our child-based charities,” says Ingrid Card, Vice President of group marketing at Sagicor. Generosity® is the conscious fundraising platform that’s free, fast, and open, giving individuals and organizations the power to improve only socially lives everywhere. Donations can be made to the Sagicor Foundation. Donations to support this year’s causes are also being invited, and can be made via pledges. Local donors may make […]
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Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run is hosted by Sagicor Group Jamaica. The run started 18 years ago with 300 people and has now grown to be the largest road race in the world per capital. Scheduled for Sunday February 21 under the theme ‘run for the fun, donate for the cause’, with a target of JA$50M, the event is raising funds for Children with Cancer across Jamaica, Jamaica Cancer Society and the Black River Hospital Paediatric unit. Over the last 18 years Sigma Run has raised JA$166M for organisations and charitable institutions in Jamaica.Last year saw a record 24,000 Walkers, runners and wheelchair Jamaicans, coming together to raise funds for Cornwall Regional Hospital and the Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation. 2016 Beneficiaries Children with Cancer across the island – cancer is the leading cause of death in Jamaica for children under 14 years of age. Funds will be used to purchase needed machine/equipment to treat the disease along with various types of medicine. The Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) – for the purchase a new Mammography Unit which will be retrofitted on a mobile vehicle to be able to reach women in rural Jamaica to do breast screening. The Black […]
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