“Help Our Home” Fundraiser To Support Mid-Shore’s Domestic Violence Shelter

The Mid-Shore Council on Family Violence (MSCFV) is seeking sponsors for a fundraiser on October 4, 2013 from 5-7:30 pm in support of its Domestic Violence Shelter. The “Help Our Home” event will be held at The River House Pavilion, 28449 Clubhouse Drive, Easton, MD 21601. Tickets for the event cost $75 per person and can be purchased in advance.

The Keynote Speaker will be Mildred D. Muhammad. Mildred is a domestic violence survivor with a story to tell the world. Many know her first and foremost by her former husband,– the convicted and now executed DC sniper who terrorized the Washington DC metro region in late 2002. However, many are not aware that the reasons for the horrific attacks on innocent women, children and men in the DC Metro area, originated from John Allen Muhammad’s stalking and the control tactics he used on Mildred, his former wife, whom he sought to find and kill before, during and after the divorce. Mildred is the Founder/Executive Director of After the Trauma, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to providing assistance to domestic violence survivors by providing mentoring, education and transportation programs. The organization creates ways to help survivors face their next day, and an even greater need to rebuild their lives.

“Help Our Home” supporters will have an opportunity to select fundraising goals they want to support from among such things as providing a bed or meals for one person in the shelter for a year, funding the hotline for a year, or providing a bed and food for one child in the shelter for a year. All donations are tax deductible. The “Help Our Home” Planning Committee members are board members: John Evans, Jamie Merida, Carol Parlett, Katie Pittsinger and Christina Wingate-Spence.

The Domestic Violence Shelter is one of the many services provided by MSCFV to domestic violence victims from Caroline, Talbot, Queen Anne’s, Dorchester and Kent Counties. The mission of MSCFV is to create healthy opportunities to break the cycle of domestic violence through intervention and prevention. MSCFV is a non-profit organization which has been providing services since 1980.

For more information about the event or to reserve tickets, please contact Marina Fevola at marina@mscfv.org or 410-714-1679. To find out more about the MSCFV, please go to its website, www.mscfv.org or visit its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mscfv. To order tickets on-line, please visit helpourhomefundraiser@eventbrite.com.