The Slocan Valley Grassroots Grammas will host an African Dinner at the Vallican Whole Community Centre on Saturday, April 5 at 5:30pm. One hundred tickets are being sold for this event which will include a vegetarian meal, silent auction and entertainment including African songs leading up to dessert.
With the help of the community, the Slocan Valley Grassroots Grammas support African grandmothers with fundraising efforts such as this dinner, our Café Chocolat cabarets, yard sales, bake sales, jewellery sales and the ever-popular Make a Donation Take a Decoration Christmas table. If you know us, you know that all proceeds go to the African grandmothers’ community projects through Stephen Lewis Foundation.
In the 1980’s, the HIV/AIDS pandemic raged through the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, claiming a generation of young adults. Immediately, African grandmothers stepped in to raise the children despite grief, stigma and disparities. Stephen Lewis, then the United Nations’ special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, called on Canadians, and the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign was started in 2006. It is hard to believe that there is still an HIV/AIDS crisis, that was compounded by the COVID pandemic and is now being impacted by the withdrawal of U.S. aid.
We are privileged to walk just a bit of the road with the grandmothers. We hope you will join us. Advance tickets only ($25). Contact Kathy at 250-226-7714 (kjmckenz@telusplanet.net). Bring cash or a cheque for beer or wine and the silent auction. Doors open at five.
Grassroots Grammas