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Fall Feast Children's Champions Benefit
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Ming Tsai, Chef/Owner of Blue Ginger
Hosts An Intimate Dinner To Benefit 
Nelson Mandela Children's Fund USA 

Chef Ming Tsai   
           Blue Ginger Logo             

Wellesley, Massachusetts  

VIP Reception: 6 PM  
Five Course Dinner & Presentation: 7 PM

Tickets for Reception:  
$125.00

Tickets for Reception, Five Course Dinner & Presentation: 
$350.00 (for Individual); $550.00 (for Couple) 

Sponsorship Packages, Reservations & Information:  
617.443.4435 / meghan@nmcfusa.org

Honorary Co-Chairs, Ambassador Charles R. Stith and Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, invite you to celebrate the Fund's history and support its most exciting new initiative - the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital (NMCH), a 200 bed pediatric teaching hospital on the campus of University of Witwatersrand. NMCH will provide state-of-the-art specialist care to all children, regardless of ability to pay.

The Fall Feast will be hosted by celebrated celebrity chef, Ming Tsai at his restaurant, Blue Ginger, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Named Restaurateur of the Year by the Massachusetts Restaurant Association in 2007, Chef Ming will offer an intimate five course dinner with splendid culinary delights!

Two of Boston's Children's Champions whose work exemplify Madiba's dream and have an enormous impact on the lives of children and youth in our community will also be acknowledged at this event: Ronald E. Kleinman, MD and Joan Wallace-Benjamin, PhD.

 
Audiobook: Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales.
Over 13,000 copies of Artists for a New South Africa’s (ANSA) audiobook, Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales have been sold and it has received the following accolades: Grammy nomination – Children’s Spoken Word; AudioFile – Best Audiobooks of 2009; National Parenting Publications – 2009 Gold Award; iTunes – Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2009; Library Journal – Editors’ 2009 Fall Pick; Audible.com – 2009 Top 5 Audiobooks for Kids and Young Adults; Oppenheimer Toy Portfolio – 2009 Platinum Award; and, Emusic.com – Best Audiobooks of 2009.
You can find out more about the audio book here: