REALTORS® Help Launch the Oak Medical Education Foundation
Oakville, ON – On June 18, 2021 at 7 p.m., Sutton REALTORS ® Carol Chen and Shawn Fang, as well as three other founders, Melody Xu, Jen Zhou and Scott Xie, will officially launch the Oak Medical Education Foundation (OMEF), which aims to improve local medical facilities, help communities better understand the operation of the healthcare system, and strengthen the connection between the system, donors and community volunteers. Even before the official launch, they completed a successful fundraiser.
“We hosted a charity sale for the Oakville Hospital Foundation (OHF) in May,” says Shawn Fang, President & CEO, OMEF. “High Link Consulting Services Ltd. donated a batch of hand sanitizer to us for a charity sale in our neighbourhood and we raised $1,000 for OHF.”
Shawn and his wife Carol began volunteering in community outreach for OHF in late 2019. Within a few months, COVID-19 had spread around the world. Their local hospital saw patient numbers and demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) skyrocket.
If frontline healthcare staff ran out of masks and other PPE they would put themselves, their patients and the public at a great risk of infection. Shawn, Carol and four other team volunteers organized and promoted the Oakville Chinese Community Response Fund on March 18, 2020 and within just two days raised $30,000 for Oakville’s hospital. When the rapid response campaign ended, the total exceeded $35,000.
In recognition of their numerous ongoing efforts to protect the health of their community, Shawn and Carol were honoured by the Rotary Club of Oakville and received the Paul Harris Award in January 2021.
The official launch of the Oak Medical Education Foundation will take place via Zoom. The event will feature these speakers: Melody Xu, VP, Strategy & External Relations, OMEF; Suzanne Hallworth, Chief Development Officer OHF; Shawn Fang, President & CEO, OMEF; Professor Xiaolin Wei, University of Toronto, Dr. Hanif Jamal, Medical Director of IASIS Health Management; and Jennifer Zheng, a medical student at the University of Toronto. To join the Zoom session use Meeting ID:7502809585 and passcode: 489510.
Elected officials from three levels of government have confirmed their attendance to the inauguration including MPP Stephen Crawford, MPP Effie Triantafilopoulos, Mayor Rob Burton, and Oakville Town and Regional Councillors Tom Adams and Pavan Parmar.
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Sutton Group Realty Systems Inc. Contacts:
Shawn Fang
416-276-2110
shawnfang@sutton.com
Carol Chen
647-622-0023
carolchen@sutton.com
Sutton Group Realty Services Ltd. Contact:
Brooke Matthews
604-691-1689
stories@suttonspirit.com