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The Queen ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s Department of Family Medicine has adopted the Partners in Mission Food Bank as its Charity of the Year, and launched its annual fundraising campaign by raising close to $1,800 at its Christmas party.

An initiative of the department ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s WorkLife Balance Committee, donating to a different charity each year provides staff and faculty members an opportunity to give back to their community as a team. Previous charities have included KFL&A Public Health ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s Dental Treatment Assistance Fund and CanAssist, a Kingston-based registered charity that works to support sustainable infrastructure projects in East Africa.

A component of the department ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s Christmas party is a fun competition among teams of faculty and staff members to produce the most entertaining video. This year ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s winning team, from the department ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s Centre for Studies in Primary Care, donated its prize, a $500 Visa card, to the food bank. Coupled with the evening ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s individual donations of $1,270, the total raised was $1,770. Other WorkLife Balance-sponsored events throughout the year will supplement this initial donation.