Hope for Haiti Fundraiser Dec. 5 at Staggering Ox

November 20, 2009

On Saturday, December 5, the second-annual Hope for Haiti fund-raiser will occur at the Staggering Ox in Helena's Lundy Center from 6:30 to 9 p.m., with free admission and live music. This event will raise funds to allow a group of six Carroll students to travel over their Christmas break to Haiti, where they will serve as medical assistants to a team of professional dentists and oral surgeons volunteering with Montana Dental Outreach. Last spring, four Carroll juniors served on the first such Montana Dental Outreach mission to Haiti, which ended with professional dental care and lifesaving procedures provided to over 300 of the Western Hemisphere's poorest people. All proceeds from the December 5 event at the Staggering Ox go to help provide this much needed care in Haiti's impoverished rural region beyond the city of Jérémie.

Hope for Haiti will include a free concert featuring the musical talents of Jack Oberweiser from the Triple Cross band, accompanied by several Carroll student musicians. A Carroll math professor, Oberweiser is a veteran of last spring's Haiti service journey with Montana Dental Outreach. A silent auction will include paintings and pottery from local Montana artists and works produced by Carroll fine arts students. Photographs from the trip last spring will be on display to offer a preview of the work planned for this coming Christmas.