Annual Charity Gala ‘Restore Life’
American Friends of Georgia is organizing a charity event ‘Restore Life’ at Garden Hall, on December 10, 2016 at 18:00 to restore a tradition of philanthropy and to benefit the most needy children and elderly in Georgia. All funds raised at the event will go to support the reconstruction of the Dzegvi orphanage/shelter and palliative care program for the most needy elderly.
The Mercy Center Hospice and Home Care Program—this is the first Hospice in Georgia and the only Hospice Nursing School and Home Care Program. AFG’s Gala in December will benefit this project, which has introduced palliative care to Georgia. Beneficiary: more than 100 elderly (most needy) who need palliative home care.
For many seriously ill patients, hospice and palliative care offers a comfortable alternative to spending your final months in the impersonal environment of a hospital. Palliative medicine helps patients manage pain while a hospice provides special care to improve the quality of life for both the patient and their family. Seeking hospice and palliative care isn’t about giving up hope or hastening death, but rather a way to get the most appropriate care in the last phase of life.
The Dzegvi Community—Dzegvi Former Street Children Orphanage (established in 1995) since 2010 has become a shelter for mentally and physically disabled, former street children and single mothers who have nowhere else to go. This project is located in Dzegvi and is run by Mother Mariam Japaridze, a nun who lived with the street children at the orphanage for years. Today they have 80 inhabitants (20 children and 60 adults and elderly). This new community center will help additional homeless elderly, mentally ill and physically handicapped, and abandoned mothers with their children.
For the past few years, this celebration has been a wonderful, elegant event for the community, which has helped AFG to support the most vulnerable children and elderly. It has been made possible by generous sponsorship donations from corporations as well as AmCham, diplomatic missions, prominent Georgian artists and musicians.
The event Committee is putting together an extraordinary program for the evening with a cocktail reception, live auction by well-known Georgian and Foreign Artists, and raffle prizes, a dancing party, New Year surprises and lots more.
The last year AFG Charity Gala, in its ninth year, raised a record amount of USD 111,300. In the Christmas mood we hope you will open your hearts and join us in making difference for those vulnerable children and elderly who are in need!
American Friends of Georgia’s Charity gala is the most important and largest of its kind celebrated in Georgia.
WHERE: Rose Garden Hall, 73 Aghmashenebeli Ave.
WHEN: December 10, 18:00