If you’re in or near Boston, grab your gown and get your tickets for this Saturday’s second annual gala for FACE Africa, a young nonprofit we love that’s doing critical work supplying fresh water systems in Liberia.
The fundraiser will give FACE Africa the opportunity to honor chef Marcus Samuelsson and raise the capital it needs to install water and sanitation projects at 10 schools. Samuelsson, an Obama family favorite, is a UNICEF ambassador and spokesman for the Tap Project, a campaign to have restaurant-goers pay $1 for their tap water to benefit clean water efforts around the world.
Also helping raise money will be humanitarian and former NBA player Dikembe Mutombo, MTV star and designer Whitney Port, the NFL’s Rennie Curran of the Tennessee Titans and Victoria’s Secret model Oluchi Orlandi.
Founder and executive director Saran Kaba Jones tells Tonic, “The Clean Water Benefit Gala is our single largest fundraising event. Last year’s gala raised over $50,000 to help fund a clean water project in Joezohn, Liberia.
As anew and growing organization, we are truly blown away by the reception to our cause and by the support we have received. I’m confident that this year we will have another successful event helping make clean water and sanitation a reality for communities in Liberia.”
We know the good work that FACE Africa does; last December we ran a successful campaign with the organization and Whitney Port to raise more than $5,000 to provide clean water to a community struggling with water-borne illness.
Get your $250 tickets here. The price includes a champagne reception, passed hors d’oeuvres, a three-course dinner, a raffle and silent auction, a gift bag and — best of all — a hand in changing lives in Africa.
Photos courtesy of FACE Africa.