[TSOM-Announce] Milonga Mala Yunta - Special event - Sept 26 at 9:30pm

Dear tangueros,

If you were not at Saturday's tsom milonga you may not know about our special Milonga para Helenita that we are organizing for our Milonga Mala Yunta on Sept 26th.

Helenita is an 11 months old baby girl from Argentina.  She was diagnosed with "osteopretosis", a rare genetic and degenerative disease.  It is not "osteoporosis" that I spelled wrong...  :)  The disease that Helenita suffers makes her bones grow compact, generating pressure in all the nerves of her body.  So is suffers from pain, vision and hearing loss.  Needless to say that her life is in danger.  There is only one chance for her cure, and it's a bone marrow transplant done at the UofM Amplatz Children Hospital.

The treatment is long and expensive.  There has been a huge campaign in Argentina and they raised money for the transplant plus the first 100 days post transplant treatment.  But there is still a long way to go.  Doctors said that the post transplant treatment is at least 6 months long.

She is already in MN, and just had the transplant performed and is recovering, but the hardest path is yet to come.

We are donating all the proceeds for our September Mala Yunta to her medical fund, so if you come for our milonga on Friday, Sept 26th, you will be helping her directly.

To find out more about her, and how to help her, please visit: http://www.gofundme.com/dd57po

And also visit our website http://www.bataclantango.org 

It has been updated with Milonga para Helenita information, which I'm also including here:

Friday, Sept 26 - 9:30pm - Milonga Mala Yunta supports Helenita

$10 general, $5 students

DJ: Peter Truran

4 Seasons Dance Studio

*** all proceeds go to Helenita's medical fund ***

 Snacks:

Sandwiches de miga (if you want toasted you need to contribute with $.50)  

famous Marisa's "Pasta Frola"

Merengues con dulce de leche

the "tips" that you usually give for snacks and drinks will all go to Helenita, so be generous!

Raffle: for only $1 per ticket, you may be the lucky winner of:

1st prize: one admission to the Alejandro Ziegler Milonga that will be on October 18th at Four Seasons)

2nd prize: one admission to the Alejandro Ziegler Concert that will take place on Oct 19th at the JCC.

Please help us to spread the word!!! and come to have fun!!!  even if you don't dance tango you'll have fun!

Gracias!

Tamara