AHEAD Invites Friends and Supporters to Join in Anniversary Celebrations

 

The Association for Higher Education and Development (AHEAD) extends an invitation to all its friends, supporters, donors and members of the Ottawa community and beyond to the fifth anniversary celebrations of its founding to be held on September 18, 2004, at the Christ Church Cathedral. (Please click here to view the program)

 

The anniversary celebrations will coincide with AHEAD’s popular fund-raising event, known as Addis Bazaar. There will be a buffet dinner of delectable Ethiopian cuisine, a bazaar of diverse items from Ethiopia, including gold and silver jewelry, bed covers and table cloths, handicrafts, coffee and tea and many others, as well presentations of poetry reading and songs and music and dance.

 

The Honourable Senator Donald Oliver, Patron of AHEAD, will deliver the keynote speech.

 

A non-political, voluntary organization based in Canada, AHEAD was established five years ago with a simple but enduring motto of: “A book at a time, a student a year”. Under this motto, AHEAD operates a book shipment to three medical faculties in Jimma, Gondar and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has so far awarded bursaries for a total of 72 medical students. This year AHEAD will launch its Equipment Project with the shipment of the first batch of 18 stethoscopes, which will be given to medical students in the three faculties.

 

Tickets for Addis Bazaar are available for $20.00 only and can be collected by contacting AHEAD at: ahead@aheadonline.org or by phone at 727-2735.

 

 

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