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| “Out of Africa” to be Held November 15th |
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The Roberto Bazzoni Onlus 6th Anniversary Gala Fundraiser, “Out of Africa,” will be held on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at the State Room at Sixty State Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
Click here to view the invite.
The Black Tie event will start at 6:00 p.m.
It is expected that over $100,000 will be raised for the Luisa Guidotti Hospital in Mutoko, Zimbabwe.
Liz Brunner, Co-Anchor, WCVB-TV News Center 5 will be Mistress of Ceremonies. Co-Chairs for the event are Dan Kingsbury, President and CEO of Pioneer Investments and President of the Roberto Bazzoni Onlus – United States, and Libborio Stellino, Consul General of the Consulate of Italy in Boston.
Special guests will include Carlo Spagnolli, M.D. and Resident Surgeon of the Luisa Guidotti Hospital in Zimbabwe, and Sebastiano Bazzoni, Founder of the Bazzoni Onlus.
There will be a special entertainment by musical artist Livingston Taylor and cocktail hour jazz by the Geoffrey Hicks Trio.
There will be a cocktail reception, sit-down dinner and program. A live auction hosted by Stuart Whitehurst of Skinner and the “Antiques Roadshow” will feature a stay at a Tuscan Villa with Magnifica airline tickets from Alitalia, a trip to the Dominican Republic, a Dublin, Ireland hotel stay, original artwork, and a quilt hand-crafted by the women of Zimbabwe. The silent auction will feature dozens of auction items from restaurant and hotel certificates to fine wine and a private tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with a range of values. Tickets for the event are $250.00 per person.
Corporate sponsorships also are available.
The Onlus started treating 60 patients at the Luisa Guidotti Hospital in 2001, and is now treating nearly 1,500 patients, over 200 of which are children. Five hundred twenty-four mothers are currently under PMTCT PLUS treatment at four sites where the program is available. The Luisa Guidotti Hospital is the only private hospital in Zimbabwe that provides free ARV treatment in the country, where over one third of the adult population is infected with HIV.
Since the founding of the Onlus over $1 million has gone directly to the hospital’s suppliers for medicines and medical equipment.
The Onlus, an Italian acronym for nonprofit, was founded in 2000 in Milan, Italy to honor the memory and mission of Roberto Bazzoni, son of Sebastiano Bazzoni, an executive with Pioneer Dublin. Roberto Bazzoni was on a United Nations-sponsored humanitarian mission plane, which crashed in a mountainside of Kosovo. All those aboard the plane perished. As Roberto Bazzoni was a prosthetic technician, the first project of the hospital was to build a prosthetic hospital in Kosovo, to treat those who had lost their limbs due to land mines and other acts of war.
For further information and tickets please contact Susan Bullock, Director of Community Relations, Pioneer Investments, at 617-422-4968 or susan.bullock@pioneerinvestments.com.
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