Emergency Fundraiser Update - Week 2

 

Dear CAMPP friends and supporters, You've already helped us raise $17,500 in under two weeks! But CAMPP still needs to raise $38,000 more before June 11, 2021 to pay our court-ordered $55,750 legal bill. We know you don't like this situation, but this is the price of keeping healthcare equitable, inclusive and accessible. And just today:  A generous retiree, who has stood behind our efforts because they, too, believe hospitals belong where people live, has promised up to $1,000 in matching funds for donations to CAMPP's Emergency Fundraiser! If you haven't yet contributed to our Emergency Fundraiser, please use this opportunity to make your money go twice as far. And if you've already contributed, please consider donating again. Every dollar makes an important difference.  Each contribution is a message to decision makers at all levels of government that hospitals belong where people live.  Please be generous. No amount is too small or too big.  And help us get the word out. Please tell your friends about our Emergency Fundraiser. Everyone in Windsor Essex deserves a better healthcare plan.

Click here to donate to our GoFundMe

Please note: you can also etransfer your donation directly to our account using our email address: windsorcampp@gmail.com.

Connecting the dots Several supporters contacted us this week with comments like this one that arrived in the mail from one of our donors:

"The article in the Windsor Star regarding the use of farm land is quite illuminating."

They were referring to Doug Schmidt's May 28, 2021 Windsor Star article that warned that urban sprawl is gobbling up the equivalent of 135 football fields in Ontario every day:

Food growers issue urgent plea to preserve Ontario's shrinking farmland base   “The pressure of development is intense. Losing farms means we’re losing food security — once farmland turns into housing and concrete, it never goes back”

Local elected leaders need to protect Essex County farmland from reckless suburban development! Among the critical issues hospital planners failed to consider when selecting the hospital site were farmland preservation and other environmental impacts. They completely ignored climate change and the potential for flooding resulting from upstream development on land used for growing crops today. The selected site -- on flood-prone rural land -- will require extremely expensive specialized stormwater management systems to protect established East Windsor neighbourhoods, as well as the adjacent Town of Tecumseh. Both are downstream from Sandwich South, the planned site of the new hospital and its surrounding residential development. And because of the proximity of Sandwich South to Windsor Airport, special additional measures will be required to mitigate the very real risk of attracting waterfowl to stormwater retention ponds. Those who stand with CAMPP recognize that greenfield development is not environmentally responsible. Please continue to tell decision makers that we can't afford to build for the past. We must prevent Windsor's Worst Planning Mistake from being built in on County Road 42. More sensible solutions exist. We owe it to our children and grandchildren!