Yum Yum is staging ‘An Afternooon for Africa’ on 22 April to be be held at their restaurant in Stoke Newington High Street, described as a ‘fundraising, consciousness event in aid of AMURT projects in Ghana’. This will be the first of a series of fundraising events supporting the international voluntary organisation AMURT. They are promising live Ghanaian and fusion music, free vegetarian Yum Yum buffet, children’s entertainment, a prize draw (including two return air tickets to Ghana!) and ‘a lively, positive, uplifting atmosphere that will lift your spirits and soothe your soul’.
AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is one of the few voluntary organizations started in the developing world. Founded in India in 1965 to help the victims of natural disasters on the Indian sub-continent, AMURT now has relief operations in eighty different countries. The AMURT approach is significant because its ethos centres on empowering local community leaders to be key agents for change in their own communities, and is based on strong universal spiritual values.
AMURT’s recent achievements in Ghana include the Mafi-Zongo Water Project, which brings safe drinking water to 9,000 people, and training initiatives at Seva Clinic, where village midwives have been following a Safe Motherhood and Midwifery Program. Plans for the future include providing new technology, training, expansion and the empowerment of local leadership.
The afternoon will begin at mid-day with live music from an African band, speeches and a buffet. Children’s entertainers will then occupy the children whilst the adults listen to some short presentations on AMURT, followed by dessert and live music from singer songwriter Phil the Stream, Kari Bannerman with the band Boombaya and featuring Paulina Oduro, who play 'high life' Ghanaian music, and other acts yet to be confirmed. Prize draw tickets will also be available all afternoon and the draw will be made at 5pm. All proceeds from the event will go to AMURT.
More entertaining and certainly more worthwhile than your average Sunday afternoon.
Adult advance tickets for ‘An Afternoon for Africa’ cost £10, Children under 14 pay only £5 and those under the age of 8 are free. Tickets are available from Yum Yum Restaurant or by calling 020 7254 6751 and using a credit card. Cash or cheque ticket purchases can also be made at Food For All, 3 Cazenove Road, N16 6PA. For more information please call 07944 762 873.
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