Healing Hands for Haiti plans annual S.L. fund-raising gala

Healing Hands for Haiti, a not-for-profit medical foundation in Salt Lake City, will hold its second annual gala May 11 at the Salt Lake Country Club.

Festivities begin at 7 p.m. with a social hour and silent auction, followed by a dinner. At 8:30, a live auction will begin, featuring a professional auctioneer.The group includes physicians, nurses, therapists and other health-care providers dedicated to offering rehabilitative services and education to the people of Haiti.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with an annual per capita income of $385. With virtually no infrastructure and little health care, the slightest injury suffered in Haiti can result in lifelong disability.

Healing Hands for Haiti sends doctors, physical and occupational therapists, nurses, social workers and translators to Haiti.

For more information, call Rebecca Kurumada at 582-5109.