Nestlé Waters Canada announced it donated 160,000 pounds of bottled water to the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger Cat Football Club and the league’s 2013 Purolator Tackle Hunger campaign, helping the Ti-Cats and their fans set a CFL record for food bank giving.
The tonnage of bottled water donated by the Puslinch company equates to approximately 176,400 bottles of water and is being distributed to food banks in Brantford, Cambridge, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kitchener, Mississauga, Stratford and Waterloo.
The company’s gift, complemented by individual foodstuff donations made by Ti-Cat fans and other companies over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, resulted in more than 220,500 pounds of food and beverages being donated to local food banks.
Nestlé Waters Canada also recently announced a donation of $70,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF)through its Nestlé Pure Life Natural Spring Water Pink Pack Program during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.
The donation from Nestlé Waters Canada will go toward funding BCRF research grants (in particular two research projects). The current BCRF grant is supporting two researchers who are trying to develop a drug that will prevent breast cancer in those with mutations in the BRCA gene (the breast cancer susceptibility gene) before it occurs as a detectable lump. To date, no other known scientists are working to develop new drugs to prevent breast cancer in those with the BRCA-mutation.
The drug the researchers hope to develop would save women from having to undergo a bilateral mastectomy, the only other known preventative step for those with the inherited genetic mutation.
This year in Canada, according to the BCRF, more than 23,200 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, the most common cancer in women.
