BY Daniel Harkins | November 18 | 
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SCIAF Ebola Appeal to receive half of Cardinal Winning Ball proceeds
Archbishop Tartaglia has asked that the Scottish International Aid Funds’ efforts to tackle the deadly disease be one of the main beneficiaries of the annual fundraising event
Organisers of the Cardinal Winning Ball have announced that half of the proceeds from this year’s event will go to SCIAF’s Ebola Appeal at the behest of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow (above).
The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund announced this week they are to send £60’000 of aid to Sierra Leone and Liberia. They had already sent £10,000 to help Holy Spirit Hospital in Makeni, Sierra Leone, a country where more than 1000 people have died from the disease. That money was earmarked for pay for specialised training for hospital staff, surgical gloves and masks and cleaning products such as disinfectant to stop the disease spreading.
The annual Cardinal Winning Ball, to be held in Glasgow’s Crowne Plaza Hotel, is celebrating its 37th year.
Archbishop Tartaglia will host the event whose other beneficiary will be the proposed new Chaplaincy in Glasgow City Centre accommodating Strathclyde University, Glasgow Caledonian University and the new City of Glasgow College.
In previous years the ball has raised more than £100,000 and in total more £1 million has been donated to charitable causes.
—Tickets for the Friday, December 5 event are £80 and can be obtained by phoning 0141 418 9231 or emailing [email protected]. For more info visit cardinalwinningcharityball.co.uk/index.html
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