AUBURN – HEART, an international non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Kenyans, through education and resources, to create healthy, disease free lives, celebrates the organization's 10th anniversary with its Benefit Dinner on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 5pm. 

This year the event will be held in the Placer Building at the Auburn Fairgrounds. The evening will begin with a silent auction of beautifully crafted quality African and domestic items from 5-6:45 pm, with hor’douvres and a no-host bar. Live musical entertainment will be provided by the TJ Wrightly Band. Dinner will be served at 6:45 and will be catered by Strings Restaurant. The program will begin at 7pm and will feature Keynote Speaker Warren Buckingham III, who recently accepted a post with the Obama Administration in the Washington DC Global AIDS Office. Also speaking will be HEART founder and president, Vickie Winkler, as well as Kenya HEART program manager, Isaac Mzee. 

As in past years, the event will offer a special raffle for an African Safari trip for two with a value of $3,200 which includes 4 days and 3 nights with meals at a Kenyan Wildlife Safari Park and 4 days at the HEART Lodge in Nairobi including 2 meals a day and all ground transportation. The raffle tickets are $50 each with a maximum of 300 tickets sold. The raffle drawing will conclude the evening.  

Reservations are required to attend the HEART dinner and auction. To make dinner reservations and purchase raffle tickets, visit or call one of these sites:

    *  The Heart Office in Auburn, 885-9600 or gloriamartinez@africaheart.com
    * Auburn Lyons Real Estate 1900 Grass Valley Hwy #100, Auburn
    * Gold Country Fairgrounds office – open 9-5 daily, closed 12-1 for lunch 

Or send a check to:

HEART
P.O. Box 5675
Auburn, CA: 95604 

HEART – which stands for Health, Education, African Resource Team - provides pivotal HIV/AIDS and other opportunistic disease prevention training to Kenyans through community development and the empowerment of local leaders. Many local Californians from churches, universities, Rotory, Lions and Soroptomist groups have been part of volunteer teams in Kenya. HEART’s purpose is to provide access to the basic knowledge needed to survive.