New Delhi. February 17, 2007
Genesis Foundation’s eagerly-awaited annual fundraiser event, “CEOs Share-a-Smile’ took place on February 17, 2007 at the Nandiya Garden, ITC Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi.
Reflecting our motto of ‘Sharing a Smile’, the Genesis Foundation’s third CEO lunch provided the opportunity to sample some unique creations while supporting a vital and worthy cause. The event, as you are all aware, is part of our ongoing endeavor to build a corpus fund, in order to be able to aid treatments for a larger number of children each year.
Of late many of our young patients are those suffering from cardiac deficiencies, so we were delighted to receive a proposal from Max Healthcare offering Rs. four lakhs of financial support for children with cardiac problems.
Hot pink garden umbrellas and pink head gear for all staff announced the presence of our main sponsor – Hutchinson Essar Telecom. Our Silver Sponsor was Motorola. And in a developing tradition, the ITC Welcomgroup opened their doors to us for the third consecutive year. Among the other sponsorships in kind were Bacardi-Martini, UB Group, Canon, Reebok, Moet- Hennessy and Benetton.
Our Star CEO Chefs Werner Heesen, Lufthansa and Gary Bennett, Max New York Life can both be described as gourmets who are passionate about cooking. The list also included Sita Raina, Brand Theatre, Andrew Horne, Xerox India, Anil Shrikhande, Boeing International, Sheila Singla, Chrysalis HRD, Amit Bhatia, WNS Knowledge Services, Subrat Padhi, Hutchison Essar and Dan Sandhu, Vertex India
The Barcardi-sponsored cocktail making added to the excitement. As always, Ashwani excelled in motivating the crowd to open their wallets. And both Sita and Sheila helped increase the bidding by offering a peck on the cheek to the highest bidders, bringing in Rs. 35,000.
The day came to a close with the lucky draw dip and two pleasant surprises. First, the ALP Batch 4 handed over the whooping 1,40,000 that they had collected for the foundation. And upon departure, Moet Hennessy presented all present with a bottle of their wonderful wine.
The event generated an amazing 14.05 lakhs and was covered by NDTV, Aaj Tak and CNBC. With each year that passes we look to increasing our corpus fund, our target being 50 lakhs in the first five years. Here I would like to borrow the Nike sign off line, Just Do It and we will with the support of all our well wishers.
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