Year 3, Volume 2: National Office: Annual Dinner

The Annual fund-raising dinner was held on June 8th in the Sheraton Hotel’s elegant Retiro Hall.

The Master of Ceremony was Pancho Ibáñez and we were pleased to welcome a number of distinguished guests. Cargill Foundation, Shell, Pan American Energy, Citibank Argentina and Jempsa generously sponsored the event.

The evening included a Silent Auction in a festive atmosphere with the Jazz Band, and the “A House for a House” challenge, where miniature bricks and other parts of a house were sold to raise enough money to finance a real house.

An enthusiastic group of 63 volunteers from Australia, France, Germany, United States, Santa Fe, Luján, Buenos Aires and from St. George’s North School and Saint John’s School, wearing helmets and carrying pails full of bricks, sold and built our miniature house!

The evening ended with a Tango show before the floor was opened for dancing.

Those of us who work with Habitat for Humanity Argentina feel really satisfied with the results of this event. We think we have been able to establish contacts between the guests, companies and volunteers. Everyone who participated of this event was able to obtain a vision of the housing problems in Argentina, and to understand the work Habitat for Humanity does with families.

As one of our guests said: “Habitat for Humanity Argentina does what lots of us would like to do, but are not able to do by ourselves…Thank you for encouraging us to help!”