Israeli Group Helps Doctors Raise Funds for Community in Distress in Ethiopia

The Israeli relief group Israeli Flying Aid will hold a fundraiser in Herzliya Pituach on Friday, March 28, 2008, 2pm – 8pm at the Douglas restaurant-bar. The event aims to raise funds to support a medical clinic in one of Ethiopia's poorest districts. Several of Israel's well known entertainers, including Berry Sacharof, Dudu Tasa, Ras Daniel and others, are supporting this effort by performing at the event.

Israeli physicians Idit and Amit Dotan are the initiators of this medical program. Both have visited Ethiopia 5 times and volunteered for over a year in the Mother Teresa clinic for HIV/AIDS orphans in Addis Ababa as well as in a clinic in the south, dedicating their time and effort to help some of the poorest people in the country. The clinic, which is located in the South – west of the country in the Gorga district, was renovated by the doctors and equipped with some basic medical items which enable them to treat almost 100 patients a day. The project, though intiatally a private venture, now needs additional funds. The couple turned to Israeli Flying Aid. Israel Flying Aid has already helped send more medical items to the clinic and is sponsoring the fundraiser, in the hopes that those in attendance will show their support for the project.

Cost: 80NIS per ticket

(Source: Amit Dotan)