4th of July Live Auction Items [] Patronato Pro Niños Telethon on July 4th!
News Category: News, Announcements, and Non Profits
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What do a Lamborghini, a river boat,
and a gorgeous painting have in common?Absolutely nothing!
Except for the fact that these three
wonderful prizes are just a few of the
exciting ones you can win atPatronato Pro Niños’ Telethon on July 4th!
Imagine yourself behind the wheel of the car of your dreams and experience the thrill of driving on a real racetrack. Lamborghini Huracan. Porsche 911 GT3. Nissan GTR. Audi R8 V-10. The choice is yours! And you can drive your dream car the way it was meant to be driven — free from the confines of speed limits and traffic. This very special prize includes roundtrip airfare to Las Vegas for two, and a three-night stay at a 4-star hotel on the Las Vegas strip!
Or imagine yourself spending a wonderful week in a beautiful, centrally located home in San Antonio, Texas, where you can walk along San Antonio’s famous River Walk, gather a little culture at some really interesting museums, and dine at some truly outstanding restaurants! Or if you want – as you can just spend ALL your time shopping! What could be more fun? Plus this prize comes with the use of a car while you are there!
Or imagine that you’ve just hung an extraordinarily beautiful painting by the well-known artist Cecilia Rivera on your living room wall and are hosting a party for your friends to show off the magic that it has brought to your home! Rivera’s paintings are treasured in collections around the world, including the US, France, Germany and Mexico. And now we’ve got one for you!
These are only three of the fabulous items you can win at Patronato Pro Niños’ Telethon on July 4th!
Event Information:
Our Live Telethon will be held at the Angela Peralta Theatre on July 4 from 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM, and includes a variety of entertainment, the auction itself, plus wonderful food and drink! Seating at the theatre is limited to 80 guests only, so get your tickets early! Tickets are $100 US per person. To get your ticket to the Telethon at the Angela Peralta Theatre, go to our website at PatronatoProNinos.org and from the Events menu, choose July 4 Celebration.
We’re also holding a limited number of Special Watch Parties during the Telethon. These Special Watch Parties will be held in lovely private homes where you’ll also be wined and dined while you watch our telethon and bid on our Live Auction items! Tickets to a Watch Parties are $100 USD per person. To sign up for one of these fun events, email Jill at jillmnoack@yahoo.com and be sure to include your phone number in your email. These parties are also limited in the number of guests, so call early to secure your ticket!
All proceeds from these fun events will go to Patronato Pro Niños San Miguel de Allende, A.C., one of the city’s oldest charities. Founded in 1970, Patronato Pro Niños provides medical, dental, psychological, and nutritional services to the neediest children in San Miguel.
By promoting good health and oral hygiene, by providing necessary medical and dental care, by working with other health care providers as advocate and funding source, we help children from economically disadvantaged families in San Miguel de Allende lead healthier, fuller lives. And we’ve been doing this for 45 years. We now see second and third generations of the same family. These families trust Pro Niños. And we’ve earned that trust by helping literally thousands and thousands of children through the years. With your help, we will continue this tradition and add to the many programs we already have in place.
Please donate now so that more children may THRIVE.
Founded in 1970, Pro Niños was able to provide medical care to only 20 children in our first year of operation. Since then, we have grown in size and scope so that we now provide dental care to over 9,000 children, and medical care to 2,500 children in and around San Miguel de Allende. In total, we give more than 23,000 treatments a year. To serve these children, we have on staff four dentists, a doctor, a full time social worker and eight support staff. We are accredited in Mexico as a charitable, non-profit organization (Asociación Civil), registered in the Federal Registry and awarded with tax exemption status. We are also incorporated in the United States as a 501 (c)(3) under the name “FTC International, Inc.” to accept U.S grants and individual donations. All Mexican children from birth to 16 years of age who do not receive medical care from private insurance or social security benefits are eligible for our medical and dental care programs. It is estimated that 44,000 children fall into the 0-to-16-year-old category. Less than 15% receive social security benefits, leaving many without adequate medical care. We coordinate our services with two Mexican government programs (Seguro Popular and Nueva Generación) and fill some much-needed service gaps. Dental care, for other than the middle and upper-economic class, is nonexistent. To preserve dignity and promote parental involvement with necessary follow-up care, families are asked to participate in the cost of their child’s care according to their ability, which in many cases is as little as ten pesos. Every morning at 7:30, our three mobile dental vans depart San Miguel to visit some of the hundreds of villages needing dental services. Teachers, parents and children often meet our dentist and her assistant/driver at the entrance of the village. In a typical day, our dentists are able to dispense 25-30 treatments and the vans will return to the village for as long as it takes to serve every child. The medical and dental care we provide can dramatically change lives and in some cases, even save lives. Once we have determined an individual child’s needs, we work closely with medical providers – as advocate and funding source – to make sure the child gets the best care possible. On any given day in the clinic, our doctor treats as many as 20 children directly and refers others to specialists and various service providers as needed. The doctor also conducts follow-up to ensure that the children receive the required care from outside service providers. The in-clinic dentist treats an average of 15 children per day; those whose villages are not being visited by the mobile vans. The Mexican Government, recognizing that Pro Niños fills gaps in the health services provided to citizens, provides support through grants of various amounts from various departments. Other funds are raised through donations from members, local residents, and visitors to San Miguel. We also receive additional funding from other active charities in San Miguel and from foundations.
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