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Yogalife holds family class benefiting Haiti Saturday

February 5th, 2010 by Thea

Yogalife‘s Queen Anne location is offering a class from 1 to 2 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, February 6 benefiting “Stand With Haiti”, a project of Partners In Health, an organization that has been working to improve health care in Haiti for over 20 years. Tomorrow’s class will be donation-only, and open to individuals and families with members of all ages. Read more about Liv’s family yoga classes here. For more information, call (206) 283-9642.

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Haitian relief fundraiser at KwaTay Lounge Saturday

January 14th, 2010 by Thea

Authentic Ghanaian restaurant KwaTay Lounge, located at 315 1st Ave. N., will be holding a fundraiser for the victim’s of the earthquake in Haiti on Saturday, January 16 from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

KwaTay

Organizer Wendy Cadet, who works with the Elise Joseph Foundation to bring donated medical equipment and trained nurses to Haiti year-round, is hosting the fundraiser to collect supplied and relief donations from the community.

“I am trying to get help for people in Haiti, my mom and dad and other family members are in Haiti and we have not heard from them. The organization has a plane, pilot, doctors and nurses ready to be deployed. We need medical supplies, non perishable food, money, clothes anything that can help,” she wrote on the event’s Facebook page.

Admission will be $10. In an email sent out later this afternoon, Cadet said there will also be Haitian art available for sale at the event. For more information, contact Cadet at 206-595-3127, or Elise Joseph Foundation President Gilda Jean-Louis at 267-808-4714.

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