The Orangeville Go Go Grannies are inviting everyone to join them for their "Flavours of Africa" event, a dinner featuring tasty recipes from various regions of Africa.

The dinner, a fundraiser for the Grandmother to Grandmother campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF), will be held at Tweedsmuir Presbyterian Church, 6 John Street, Orangeville, this Saturday, October 17, from 6 to 9 p.m.

African music, a film from the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and an African marketplace will complete the experience. The marketplace features beads, brooches, beautiful Kazuri jewelry handmade in Kenya and the unique Orangeville Go Go Grannies aprons, featuring original artwork. It's a great place to do your early Christmas shopping.

For the last three years, the Go Go Grannies have hosted a variety of fundraising events which resulted in thousands of dollars being raised and sent to SLF projects in various African countries.

The continent has been suffering markedly in the recent years from the AIDS pandemic, and grandmothers whose own adult children have died, are now raising their grandchildren, often in circumstances of dire poverty.

Grandmothers (and other concerned individuals) all across Canada have been getting involved in helping their 'sisters' across the ocean.

Tickets for the African Dinner are available from BookLore in Orangeville and only by advance purchase (deadline October 16). Cost is $20 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under.