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Christmas Bazaar raises 40 000 EUR for charities

Dec 11, 2017
The 21st International Christmas Bazaar count shows that nearly EUR 40 000 were collected on December 2, which will offer tremendous help in continuing and increasing charity work throughout Latvia!

All the funds raised at the Bazaar will be directed to Charity projects in Latvia, with special attention to low-income families, young single mothers, children in need, elderly people, and victims of violence.

The charities the IWCR supports are as follows:

• Auce Namins
• SOS Children`s Villages
• Villages Latvia
• Irlava orphanage
• Ronald McDonald House Charities (Care Mobile)
• Mother Theresa Missionaries of Charity
• The Soup Kitchen of the Riga Anglican Church
• Hope for Children
• Latvian Foster Families Association
• Rupju Berns Center
• Betlemes Maja
• Marsa Gatve crisis center
• Pink Train Foundation
• Martas Centrs

The event was already generously sponsored by AmCham members airBaltic, Grand Palace Hotel, Indian Raja, Park Inn by Radisson Riga Valdemara, Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija, SEB banka and The Baltic Times.

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