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Thanks to a very successful start in fall 2015, the OVC Pet Trust team is pleased to announce that an astounding $6.5 million has been committed to help create new world-class surgery and anesthesia facilities at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) at the University of Guelph.
This latest $9-million fundraising effort was launched at the third ‘A Walk in the Park’ gala held in October last year. The event, organized by the Walk in the Park gala committee and chaired by long-time Pet Trust supporters Emmanuelle Gattuso and Sandra Faire, raised more than $500,000 for OVC Pet Trust. Animal lovers, generous donors, Pet Trust- funded researchers and OVC clinicians were in attendance and an additional $3.5 million was announced during the event to support Pet Trust’s latest fundraising efforts.
“This is quite an accomplishment in just a few short months. We have incredible donors who understand the value of the work being done to help animals at OVC and they got behind this project really quickly,” says Kim Robinson, Managing Director of OVC Pet Trust. “It’s a very exciting time. We have $2.5 million left to raise and hope to start the project later this year.”