Nicaragua Night 2012 Slated for January 28

(1/5) Project Gettysburg-León (PGL) will hold its annual Nicaragua Night and Auction on Saturday, January 28 at Gettysburg College’s Hauser Field House. Doors open at 5 p.m. A buffet dinner will be served.

The Auction is PGL’s main fundraiser of the year to support grassroots development projects in that Central American country. Auction items include getaway vacations, signature meals, artwork, themed baskets, and a wide variety of services. Last year’s event netted $45,000. This year’s goal is $50,000, according to Gretchen Carlson Natter, director of Gettysburg College’s Center for Public Service, PGL’s sponsor.

PGL has had a sister city relationship with Nicaragua’s second largest city of León since 1985, and has worked with urban and rural communities on dozens of sustainable projects such as health centers, maternity homes, potable water systems, house building, cafeteria additions to pre-schools, rural electrification, and the building and use of solar ovens and food dryers.

Other programs benefiting from the auction include teaching English as second language, teacher outreach to street children, midwife training of rural women, and sustainable coffee production. For some years, PGL has also supported a thriving, award-winning arts school in León, which

provides a four-year program in painting, dance and music.

Tickets can be reserved, and tax-deductible auction items donated, on the auction website: www.gettysburg-leon.org/pgl/index.cfm/auction. Full tables are also available for reservation. Those wishing to advertise in the auction booklet, read by approximately 600 auction attendees, can do so at www.gettysburg-leon.org/pgl/index.cfm/auction/advertise. Purchases of auction items are tax deductible.

Questions or comments should directed to pglauction@gmail.com or 717.337.6490, the Center for Public Service at Gettysburg College.

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