Community
Lunch for a Cause on Wednesday
You’re going to eat lunch anyway… so Wednesday, October 24 between 11:30 and 1 PM help GrammaLink-Africa support their friends struggling to bring up their Grandchildren.
$18 buys you:
Chilli (Vegetarian available), Homemade Bun, Pumpkin Cupcake, C0ffee/Tea AND.. a Handmade Pottery Bowl!
It’s the 10th Annual lunch event held by GrammaLink-Africa in support of Grandmothers raising their grandchildren orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Africa. In 2008 a group of grandmothers based in Red Deer and headed up by Shirley Challoner hosted the first Chilli for a Cause event. They raised $2,200.00. In 2017 this event raised $8,000.00!
Chilli for a Cause
11:3o am to 1 pm
Wednesday, October 24
Gaetz United Church (4758 Ross St)
All funds raised go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation to fund grassroots projects helping African Grandmothers and their “Grandothers” raise their grandchildren who have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Click here for more information on this incredible project.
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