Over 60 members joined this year's annual Christmas Charity reception to kick-off the holiday season and raised €2600 to charities benefitting Latvia's children's health and well-being: Children’s Hospital Foundation, Latvian Foster Family Association, Ronald McDonald House Charities in Latvija, Pink Train Foundation and SOS Children's Villages. It was also a great opportunity to look back at this year and award the most active members: BluOr Bank, Cognizant, McDonald’s and Novartis.

Guests gathered at the Christmas tree for the lighting of the tree outside Hotel Bergs and later moved inside where they were greeted by John Tully, AmCham President who opened the event and Liga Smildzina-Bertulsone, Executive Director gave a short overview of AmCham performance in 2023 and conducted the charity raffle.

Christmas carols were performed by students from the International School of Latvia.

Members and guests had a chance to win fabulous prizes of the Charity Raffle:

• Weekend stay for 2 at Radisson Blu Hotel Daugava
• A gift card - one night stay for 2 at Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija Conference & SPA Hotel
• A gift card to SPA from Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija Conference & SPA Hotel
• A gift card from Taka Spa provided by R.B. Management
• 5 gift bags from SEB bank
• A gift voucher of FranklinCovey training «The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team®»
• 12 gift cards from Forum Cinemas
• 10 gift sets from ATU Duty Free
• A basketball signed by Rigas Zelli

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