Thanks to a collaboration between Moama Bowling Club and Echuca Mazda, the Echuca-Moama cancer charity is giving away a brand new Mazda CX5, valued at more than $36,000.
And with only 1000 tickets available, many of them already sold, people are urged to get their hands on one quickly.
“We are so incredibly grateful to these two wonderful organisations for gifting us this amazing prize and for their unbelievably generous support of our charity,” GNO chair Leonie Canham said.
“With your help, we are hoping to raise $50,000 through this mega-raffle to support those in our community living with cancer.”
The winner will be drawn at GNO's wildly popular Lazy Sunday Afternoon event to be held on May 31 at Junction Moama.
If the committee reaches its $50,000 target, it will take GNO's fundraising tally to almost $400,000.
Since 2008, the charity has been working to help lighten the load for cancer survivors in the community, raising more than $330,000 for the GNO Oncology Department Supportive Care Program at Echuca Regional Health.
“This program was established by GNO to provide extra care and financial support to cancer patients for things like counselling, rent payments, wigs, alternative therapies, lymphodema sleeves, fuel cards, accommodation and child care,” Leonie said.
GNO has also helped secure vital funding from the McGrath Foundation for a dedicated McGrath breast care nurse who started work at ERH in 2012.
“It costs about $380,000 to employ a full-time breast care nurse over a minimum three-year period, so this outcome was a major triumph for GNO and our community,” Leonie said.
“The GNO initiative is the much-loved creation of a small collective of Echuca-Moama women who have each experienced first-hand the impact of cancer upon loved ones.
“The movement connects, embraces and engages the sisterhood of our community to shape a strong and vibrant network of women who are there for each other in times of need.”
The Lazy Sunday Afternoon event will be held from 3 pm to 6 pm and will include speakers, auctions, a mega-raffle car giveaway, delicious food, beer, wine and bubbly.
“Our previous events have attracted between 300 and 400 women and this year will be no exception,” Leonie said.
Tickets are available from the customer service desk at Moama Bowling Club.
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