Events

Ad Women of Toronto features an exciting line-up of exclusive events and speakers throughout the year. We will be constantly adding new events to our calendar so be sure to check back often!

Hear Cherie Blair’s Extraordinary Story

August 24, 2010

Join us as we kick-off the Globe and Mail Extraordinary Stories Speakers Series!

Hear Cherie Blair’s extraordinary story… 

“How women shaped my life…and will shape our economic future”

About Cherie Blair

Born in Bury, UK in 1954, Cherie grew up and went to school in Merseyside. She was the first family member to go to university and came first in Britain in her Bar finals in 1975. She has forged a successful career in employment, public and human rights law.

Cherie is an active campaigner on equality, human rights and diversity issues. She has spoken across the world on these issues and also on the need to improve the work/life balance for both women and men – an issue, as a working woman and mother, about which she feels passionately.

Cherie has become involved in the work of many charities with a strong bias towards those working with children and women. She is President of the Loomba Foundation which educates children of poor widows in India, and a Patron of the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh and is a Member of the Milan 2015 Women and Expo International Advisory Board.

She has established the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women which works globally to provide women entrepreneurs with access to networks, finance and business development support.

About The Loomba Foundation

The Loomba Foundation is providing education to over 3,000 children of poor widows throughout India. As part of the global work, the Foundation’s Aid Projects are developed and delivered with partner organisations, including Sir Richard Branson’s charity Virgin Unite in South Africa, HRH the Prince of Wales’s charity Youth Business International in Uganda, Kenya, Nepal, Bangladesh, Syria and Sri Lanka, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in Malawi and Kenya and Oxfam GB and the Rwandan Government in Rwanda.

Click here to read about Loomba’s recent study, Invisible, Forgotten Sufferers: The Plight of Widows Around the World.

DATE: Tuesday, October 5, 2010

TIME: 8:00am Registration
               8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast
               8:30am Presentation

LOCATION: Metro Reference Library
                           The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon
                           789 Yonge Street, 2nd Floor
                           Toronto, Ontario, M4W 2G8

PRICING: Ad Women of Toronto Members
                      $50 per ticket

                       Non-Members
                      $75 per ticket

                      Corporate Table
                     $1000 per 10 people

                     price includes full breakfast buffet 

Register now for this unique opportunity.

A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE LOOMBA FOUNDATION

For further information please contact Jenni Dunne at jdunne@icacanada.ca