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A Touch
of Tanzania
Special
to The Truth
The
Toledo-Tanga (Tanga,
Tanzania)
Sister Cities Committee will be hosting a fundraiser to
raise monies for the Tanga AIDS Orphanage on Sunday, May 18
at
Manhattan’s
Restaurant from
4 to 8
p.m.
The
event will include a buffet dinner, featuring Tanzanian
dishes, along with entertainment such as open mike, an art
exhibit, an Afro-Pop band, Mad Poets, the
Scott
High School
band.
Later
that same evening, another group will be holding a
fundraiser at Wesley’s Bar and Grill from
8 p.m.
to
midnight. That event is to raise funds for a group of
Toledoans who are headed to Tanga at the beginning of the
summer to work with the Summer Youth Summit, to help to
build a room at the Tanga Toledo Schools, to hike from
region to region, to work with the cultural tourism project,
to assist with the HIV/AIDS Social Awareness Project, to
volunteer at an AIDS orphanage and to teach at the Toledo
School. The Toledo-Tanga Sister Cities Committee is the
umbrella organization for that group also.
Tickets
for the two fundraisers are $25 each. |
