Media Coverage
Toronto Star – June 11, 2011
Tiny Ethiopian medical pioneer heads home
She flopped on the ground to sulk like any little girl who has failed to win a prize at a ball-toss when the friend beside her did. A ball of pink indignation from her hair clips to her leggings, Yeabsra Hailmarim hung her famous, evolving face in her arms at...
National Post - May 27, 2011
Herbie Fund helps child with two holes in his heart
One-year-old Amanuel Derbe was born with two holes in his heart. He couldn’t eat much, he slept all the time and rarely smiled. Amanuel’s condition was equally strenuous for his mother, Yenenesh, who says she cried constantly and couldn’t sleep due to the stress.
CityNews – May 23, 2011
Herbie Fund: 2011
Part One: A little boy with severe facial deformities who found help and a new life
Part Two: Solutions for two families came from donations to the Herbie Fund
Part Three: A 13-year-old boy from Vietnam travels to Toronto for a life-saving surgery
Part Four: Meet twin girls from the Philippines who suffer from life-threatening heart defects
Part Five: Looking back on the families and how they found a new lease on life
CityNews – May 16, 2011
Countdown to Herbie Fund
Part One: Gord Martineau explains why he got involved with the organization
Part Two: Gord Martineau recalls his most-memorable moment with the organization
Part Three: Gord Martineau explains what viewers can expect from this year’s reports
Part Four: Gord Martineau looks ahead to what’s next for the Herbie Fund
Part Five: We take a sneak peak into what you’ll be seeing in CityTV’s 5-part Herbie Fund series
Citytv - May 2011
Citytv highlights Herbie Fund success stories
Gord Martineau and Citytv highlight Herbie Fund success to raise awareness for Herbie Day that took place on May 27, 2011.
Toronto Star – May 7, 2011
Reborn: See Yeabsra’s new face
Yeabsra Hailmarim is making bead necklaces, just like any 6-year-old. She is playing with Play-Doh and pushing a doll carriage, concentrating the way kids do. But this 6-year-old is transformed. Nearly three weeks ago the Ethiopian girl underwent...
Toronto Star – April 29, 2011
Easter rebirth: A 6-year-old gets a new face
Six-year-old Yeabsra Hailmarim, wearing Easter chick elastics in her braids and an eager smile, strides to the front desk of the downtown Delta Chelsea Hotel and says: “My name is Yeabsra. How are you?” It is her only English. If anyone is staring, she...
National Post – April 8, 2011
Suzanne Rogers on gearing up for the gala
Stylish philanthropist Suzanne Rogers spends countless hours planning her namesake fashion-based fundraiser. The inaugural event last year showcased Oscar de la Renta; this season, Rogers presented Marchesa designers Georgina Chapman and...
National Post – April 7, 2011
The Duchess does it right
Like a prom for adults, and a you can-count-on-it delivery system for glamour, the annual Suzanne Rogers fashion blowout went off the other night, bedazzlement in the service of old-fashioned benefactory. And while the night raised lots of coin for kids...
Marchesa - Spring 2011
Herbie’s kids
The journey began 32 years ago, in 1979, with a little seven-month-old baby named Herbie Quinones, from Brooklyn N.Y. Herbie was born with a rare birth defect that made it difficult for him to breathe while eating.
National Post – February 26, 2011
The red-carpet queens of Marchesa come to Canada
Marchesa. The very name is commanding, an emphatic punctuation mark much like the label’s muse, the imperious Marchesa Luisa Casati. If Marchesa’s fall collection seems more artfully disheveled than immaculate, that’s intentional. The inspiration...