Events

Start Date: Saturday, 31, May, 2008 - 08:30pm
End   Date: Saturday, 31, May, 2008 - 11:00pm

Halton Family Services (HFS) will be hosting a benefit concert on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at the Meeting House in the Town of Oakville, to raise money for  HFS with the help of one of Canada's most celebrated singer/songwriters, Oakville's own Juno Award winner Susan Aglukark.

Tickets are available for this event and more information can be found on Halton Family Services website.

Nancy Brown, Executive Director of Halton Family Services, says community support of this event is crucial for the success of this event.  "Adequate funding for our services is increasingly difficult to obtain. Support of this concert will help us to provide counselling and support to our most vulnerable low- income individuals, couples and families."

Starting at 7:30 p.m. Canadian songstress Kelita will open the show, performing some of her inspiring songs and warming up the crowd. Award-winner and social awareness activist, Susan Aglukark will be taking the stage to sing and help raise support and awareness for HFS. "We are very excited to have Susan. Her music speaks to the suffering of families not only to her Native Inuit in the Far North, but here in our own community. She's a great example of a woman who has endured trauma and has triumphed over it," says Ms. Brown.

HFS is a non-profit organization, established in 1954 and funded by four United Ways in Halton.  It has a long track record in the community and has undertaken many initiatives to provide non-profit counselling services in the Halton region.  Halton Family Services serves more than 2,500 individuals, couples and families a year.  HFS supports the community by offering programs and services such as individual, couple and family counselling, credit/debt counselling, services for abused women and men, services for seniors and counselling for children who witnessed abuse, with locations in Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Georgetown.