Last week Ray White City Apartments took part in a week of fundraising for New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation and breast cancer awareness in New Zealand.
The team have been raising funds through a variety of events including The Estée Lauder Companies Pink Star Walk which saw around 12 of their staff members (pictured above) walk to 10km event with close to 5,500 other women in Auckland. Last Friday the Ray White City Apartments team also got involved in the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation Street Appeal (Michelle Yurak pictured above with Amanda Fonoti) and, in addition to holding in-house morning teas and auction fundraisers, have raised close to $3,000 for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation to-date.
“One of our dear staff-members is battling breast cancer, so we are really doing this for her!” says Michelle Yurak from Ray White City Apartments. “We get the satisfaction of at the very least just trying to make a difference. Besides, all it really costs is time – something many of the people we help don’t have. We enjoy raising money for a cause and making it into an event. Our team are very generous and really get on board with donations and being involved. We have held other ‘Pink’ Morning Teas in the past but one of the highlights this years was seeing my Sales Manager and fellow colleague getting into the spirit and dressing up for our morning tea shout, as well as another colleague, Dominic Worthington, bidding $400 on the bottle of Moet Rose in the last minutes of our in-house auction.”
October is breast cancer awareness month and the New Zealand. Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women affecting one in nine New Zealand women over their lifetime, and each day seven women are diagnosed with breast cancer in New Zealand.. The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable trust and is totally reliant on grants and donations from the New Zealand public including community events held nationwide; and their own fundraising initiatives such as the Pink Ribbon Street Appeal. The money raised throughout the month will be used to fund vital research projects and support women recovering from and living with breast cancer in New Zealand. The Foundation also actively promote awareness of breast cancer in the community by providing information and education – specifically on the life-saving benefits of early detection and the importance of mammograms.
Each month Ray White City Apartments hold their own in-house ‘bake sale’ and the ladies of the office choose a charity to support. To date the team have made donations to the SPCA, New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, The Leukemia and Blood Foundation of New Zealand (through Delanie Horrobin’s S ky T ower S tair C hallenge), Ronald McDonald House, as well as stepping up to support a colleagues friend who lost everything in a recent house fire . Other team members also support various charities, including Greenpeace, Save The Bees, St John, Autism New Zealand and Diabetes New Zealand, through regular donations from property sales.
“It is an inspiring team to manage and work alongside” says Phil Horrobin, owner of the City Realty Group.