$100,000 per annum pledge to Cure Kids

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Avis Budget Key Partner Announcement:

$100,000 per annum pledge to Cure Kids

Monday 30 July 2012 – Avis Budget Group is proud to announce that it has become a key partner of Cure Kids. The partnership involves a substantial investment to the communities Avis Budget operates in, by committing to fundraise $100,000 per year as well as other fundraising efforts by Avis Budget employees.

Avis Budget Group Managing Director, Kathryn O’Neil says that Avis Budget wanted to support New Zealand at a grassroots level and Cure Kids was the right fit for the company.

“Raising funds so Cure Kids can continue to research for cures is very important. The research has the potential to improve children’s lives in every part of New Zealand, and we want to be part of that journey,” says Ms O’Neil.

Approximately one in every 30 children in New Zealand, roughly one in every classroom, lives with a genetic malformation or life-threatening illness. Cure Kids funds research that aims to improve those children’s quality of life, prolonging their life whilst looking for cures.

Cure Kids has had world-first breakthroughs into prevention and treatment of stillbirth, cot death, childhood leukemia, the heart condition Long QT syndrome, asthma and genetic malformations.

Cure Kids CEO, Vicki Lee says they are incredibly grateful and excited to be welcoming Avis Budget into their key partner family.

“Avis Budget and its staff will be making a real difference in our goal to find cures as we strive to give hope to not only our children, but the generations to come who will be affected,” says Cure Kids CEO Vicki Lee.

Avis Budget which has branches throughout New Zealand, recently held a staff roadshow in the main centres to explain the partnership with Cure Kids, and to launch its fundraising plans for the next 12 months. These plans include supporting Red Nose Day which runs from 1 August to 25 August this year.

Ms O’Neil says the feedback Avis Budget received from launching this partnership with staff has been fantastic.

“We are very excited to be supporting such a worthy charity. Cure Kids really does make a difference to the lives of many unwell children and their families.”

Maintaining momentum throughout the year, Avis Budget has tasked its branches with fundraising at a community level. Avis Budget teams will be competing in the Accor Hotels $10 Queenstown Challenge – which sees teams of two face a series of challenges as they get from Auckland to Queenstown in three days on just $10.

“We are all looking forward to growing this partnership, continuing our fundraising activities throughout the whole organisation and providing as much support and resource as we can to Cure Kids,” says Ms O’Neil.

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