Child Haven International

Date: Saturday, April 17

Description:

Child Haven International

8^th Annual Dinner & Silent Auction

Time: 6:00PM to 10:00PM 

Location: Meridian Banquet Center, address:  4820 - 76 Avenue.

 

·      Delicious East Indian buffet, entertainment, Mendhi.

·      Auction and sales items, local & exotic.

·      Child Haven information by Bonnie & Fred Cappuccino.

 

Admission: $30/ adults and $10 for children under 10. Reserve now as no tickets are sold at the door - Cheques, Cash, Credit Card Accepted.

 

For further information please phone Marjorie at (780) 238-6150 (after 7PM) or email: marjay@shaw.ca

 

After adopting nineteen orphaned children from around the world, Bonnie and Fred Cappuccino have gone on to provide homes, education, and vocational training for over six hundred more through the charity they founded, "Child Haven International".  Eligible children are without parents or from socially disadvantaged situations and destitute, i.e. do not receive even one good meal a day.  Bonnie and Fred have received several awards in recognition of their work, including the Order of Canada.

"Child Haven" is not a religious organization. In the four homes in India and three others in Nepal, Tibet, and Bangladesh, the children live simply and are treated equally without regard to race, caste, gender, religion or culture.  Non-violence is taught and practiced; meals are vegetarian.  Every attempt is made not to "westernize" the children, but rather to raise them according to the highest ideals of their own cultures and religions, whether Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Tribal, secular, or other.

Child Haven provides full care through high school age, and then vocational training so that each child can enter the local society as a self-sufficient adult.  Child Haven also strives to improve the condition of women through training, direct employment, and occasionally legal and medical aid.

You're invited to meet this remarkable couple and learn more about Child Haven, Saturday, April 17 in Edmonton.  Please support this extremely worthwhile effort.  If you can't attend, please visit their website www.childhaven.ca and consider making a tax-deductible donation.  (Please note that Child Haven does not accept government funding and does not lend, sell or share its mailing list.)