Asheville vintage garage rock band Reigning Sound and indie punk rockers Wooden Toothe play the Grey Eagle on Friday, June 24 at 8:00 p.m. to support Mission MANNA’s on-going, decade-long education and relief efforts in Haiti. $10 minimum donation and raffle with prizes from: Harvest Records, LaZoom Bus Tours, Wedge Brewery, and Blue Ribbon Hair Salon.
Funds from the show will support sustainable medical, health and nutrition efforts in four Haitian communities.
Mission MANNA, a regional non-profit comprised of doctors, nurses and citizens from Western North Carolina, has been providing ongoing medical care for malnourished children and nutritional education for adults in and around the town of Montrouis for more than a decade. Mission MANNA volunteers pay their own travel to Haiti to set up clinics, allowing early 100% of funds to go directly to Haiti.
“Our goal for Mission MANNA is to make ourselves obsolete,” says Todd Kaderabek, Mission MANNA Chairperson, “by working with our Haitian community partners to build sustainable medical, health and nutrition infrastructures that function without our efforts.”
In addition to the medical efforts for children, two of the ways the organization is supporting sustainable health and nutrition efforts is through supporting the creation of jobs and food sources, and through clean water efforts.
Sustainable Nutrition Project: Goats & Rabbits as Food and Income
In addition to the doctors and nurses who are invited and pay-their-own way to set up medical clinics in the communities, Mission MANNA works with local Haitians, employed by the organization, to raise goats and rabbits as a sustainable method to improve nutrition and create income.
Water Filter Project: Cholera Eradication
Water filters are essential in ending the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Essential to overall health in any community, Mission MANNA works with their partnered Haitian communities to provide clean, parasite-free water.
Mission MANNA is grateful for their Event Sponsors: Reigning Sound, Wooden Toothe, The Hands of Sean Perry, Inc., Harvest Records, Wedge Brewery, LaZoom Bus Tours, Blue Ribbon Hair Salon.
Financial contributions to Mission MANNA will be allocated to Mission MANNA’s efforts to provide health and nutrition relief and education in four communities in Haiti. Mission MANNA is a grass roots organization with very little expense related to overhead and staffing.
Can’t attend the show? Donate here.
Long before the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, the country struggled with meeting the basic infrastructural, nutritional and medical needs of its people. The poorest country in the Western hemisphere, more than one third of Haiti’s 9 million people are under the age of 15. The continued state of political unrest, which intermittently (and currently) freezes life and business in the country’s port areas, makes life for most all of Haitians difficult. Consequently over 80% of the Haitian people live in poverty; many without access to clean water, health care, proper lodging, or an adequate food supply.
Statistics of Malnutrition in Haiti
• One in 10 children dies before the age of 5
• Malnutrition is the leading cause of death in children
• One third of 1 year olds show signs of severe growth retardation
• Forty percent of all 5 year olds have stunted growth and brain development
• Malnutrition contributes to 60% of all deaths in children
The Effects of Malnutrition
• Poor weight gain and impaired linear growth
• Impairment of the immune system
• Behavior changes — apathy, anxiety, depression
• Developmental delay
• Permanent cognitive deficits
About Reigning Sound
http://www.myspace.com/reigningsoundfans
Reigning Sound was formed in 2001 by Memphis, TN garage-punk legend Greg Cartwright (vocals/guitar), who is also known for his previous bands The Compulsive Gamblers and The Oblivians. After Cartwright relocated his family to Asheville, N.C. in 2004, bassist David Wayne Gay, drummer Lance Wille and keyboardist Dave Amels joined him to complete the new line-up.
About Wooden Toothe
http://www.reverbnation.com/woodentoothe
A high-energy indie punk band from Asheville, NC, Wooden Toothe, according to BOLD Life Magazine, sounds like Asheville itself.
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