Psychological Well being America will host a human bingo occasion on Saturday, January 27 to lift funds for the nonprofit group for the second yr.
The occasion can be held at Woodside Nation Membership from 6:30 to 10 p.m. All ticket proceeds will help Psychological Well being America in Aiken, Barnwell and Edgefield Counties.
Every ticket prices $150 and features a seated dinner, open bar and music. The gala costume code is non-obligatory for attendees.
The spotlight of the occasion would be the sport of human bingo, the place attendees act as bingo chips. The one who finishes the diagonal line will obtain a big prize, and everybody else within the line may also obtain a prize. There can be three rounds of human bingo all through the evening.
There may also be a silent public sale.
Final yr, the nonprofit raised $80,000 for suicide prevention providers, together with help for households and help for law enforcement officials.
The occasion is the brainchild of Amy Patheja and Pam Fischbach of Psychological Well being America.
“We now have each been affected in our households by suicide in a technique or one other,” Patheja stated. “And we simply felt it was obligatory. And we noticed that if nobody does something to fulfill the necessity, it can by no means be met.”
Funds will primarily be used for household help applications for households affected by suicide.
“If there’s one suicide within the household, there are often extra,” Patheja stated. “And it makes you a little bit bit extra of a candidate, so to talk, to expertise extra suicides inside your loved ones. So we’re going to attempt to work a little bit with household help.”
He stated human bingo is likely one of the most original occasions Psychological Well being America holds all yr due to its give attention to elevating cash via enjoyable.
Psychological Well being America remains to be searching for sponsors. Tickets will be bought at aikenhumanbingo.com/.