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In the first place, Exotic Dancers For Cancer was something we started as just a "Cheer Up" event for a woman and friend who was a former exotic dancer and had learned that she was terminal. For her 40th birthday, we wanted to throw a big party and cheer her up because she was really feeling down. Her name was Jocelyne Sioui.
I told her I would continue the event in her memory if she died, which she was told she was going to. This will be the fourth year that we've done the event. The first year, she was alive and so it was just for her, and since then, it's been in her memory. She passed away three months before the second annual Exotic Dancers for Cancer and we've been organizing the event ever since. It's a collective organization among the exotic dance community - a bunch of us dancers promote it through an online forum on the nakedtruth.ca, which is a website that I founded. At The Naked Truth, you can get all the information for the event.
The first year we raised around $3,000 and we bought Jocelyne a scooter with it. The second year, we couldn't find an organization that would accept our donation. We wanted to give it to the hospice that Jocelyne died in, but they were owned by three churches, so they would only take the donation anonymously. I had discussed this with Jocelyne before she passed away, that we would want to choose an organization that would publicly accept our donation so we could put their name at the bottom of our poster and in press releases.
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Three cheers to you for
By Richard Day Gore, February 11, 2007 at 19:03Three cheers to you for trying to help. It's a shame that so many organizations have an agenda that boils down to capricously choosing who benefits and who doesn't based on a prejudice. What's more innately immoral than denying a charitable impulse and refusing help for people in need?
I'll bet if you were to bypass the sanctimonious institutional gatekeepers and offer the money to, say, an uninsured cancer patient who's being told by his doctors to bug off and die because he can't pay, he or she wouldn't let any preconceived notions of "morality" keep him from gratefully using that money to survive. When I went through cancer without insurance, I doubt I would have questioned the character of someone who was offering me help in good faith. And guess what... the doctors certainly wouldn't have cared where the money came from, as long as it ended up in their pockets.
Full speed ahead; there must be plenty of organizations or individuals who will be willing to accept your help.
Best regards,
Richard Day Gore
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