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Awesome Foundation: November Winner

Newmarket Awesome Foundation Winner
 
Debbie Panza:  Birthday Angels
 
We’d like to congratulate this month’s Awesome Foundation winner Debbie Panza and her AWESOME cause Birthday Angels. For over a year now Debbie has been running the York Region chapter of the Toronto based charity Birthday Angels. Through Birthday Angels, Panza provides monthly birthdays for kids in local shelters. Primarily Debbie works with the Blue Door shelters in the area. Each party has a theme, gifts, cake, decorations, and loot bags for all of the kids as well as food. Birthday Angels is well supported within the community, and since she started Panza has received many people donating their time to her cause. Desert by Design run by Krystle Murray donates cakes and cupcakes, Rachel Steuart; Elssa of York Region donates her time to come to the parties in different characters. Panza also has local artists donating back drops for the different themes. Is it just me or do these sound like the most amazing birthday parties! It is truly amazing to see the community come together to create these lovely celebrations!
 
We didn’t even have to ask Panza what her inspiration was to start working wit this awesome cause. She spoke about feeling the need to make a difference and initiate change in her community as the reason for starting this chapter. After a friend had posted about the opportunity on social media Panza jumped at the chance to create a positive impact her community. She said that the money from the Awesome Foundation would cover 3 months of birthdays! Until this award Panza has been funded through her friends, family and people in the community. It does not get more AWESOME than that!