Rittergut Wine Bar Restaurant & Social Club Donates to International Village Clinic for Every Entree Served in July

CHICAGO, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago's Rittergut (Perwenitz) Wine Bar Restaurant & Social Club, announced that for the month of July, it will donate $1 per entree purchased to support the International Village Clinic (IVC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing health and medical services to the poor villages of India.  IVC is also seeking funds to sustain its operations through Razoo, a crowdsource fundraising site.   

Said Larry Cerf, President of Rittergut:  "IVC is an extraordinary organization that has virtually eradicated childhood blindness and made a world of difference in the 120 villages it currently serves. Many of these villages have poor road conditions and no hospital available within a 50-mile radius.  Through its curative and preventative programs, IVC brings ultra-affordable and effective mobile health care services to 210,000 people who are greatly in need. We want to help raise awareness about this important cause, and we're pleased to offer this donation on behalf of the restaurant and our customers throughout the month of July."

To donate directly to IVC, visit www.razoo.com. To make reservations at Rittergut, visit www.rittergutwinebar.com. 

IVC has successfully garnered $25,000 to expand its mobile health care services to 12 additional villages from Project Redwood, a nonprofit partnership and social venture initiative of the 1980 Stanford Business School class.

Founded by physicist Dr. Abul Sharah in October 1999 in Uttar Pradesh, northern India -- the country's poorest province -- IVC employs skilled medical personnel in an area where illiteracy and disease are rampant. Sharah established the organization after a chance meeting in 1996 with Mother Theresa, who inspired him to make a difference.  He developed a scalable system for maximizing health benefit at the lowest cost (sometimes charging five cents) with emphasis on prenatal care and children's health.  Operating on a lean $120,000 budget, IVC provides acute medical care services and preventive care including nutrition, vaccination and health-education programs.  Rotary International funded IVC's first building in 2001.

About Rittergut Wine Bar Restaurant & Social Club

Rittergut (Perwenitz) Wine Bar Restaurant & Social Club opened in July 2011 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Center, 10 S. Wacker Drive, between the Civic Opera House and Rivers Restaurant. The wine bar features Italian, French and Spanish wines as well as American "cult" wines. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner, serving a full dinner menu six nights a week, with free two-hour parking after 5:00 p.m.

The name Rittergut (Perwenitz) memorializes property in Berlin that was confiscated from Cerf's family by the Nazis during World War II.  He and the family have been working to have it returned to them. The disposition of the Perwenitz property is in the hands of Germany's Constitutional Court.

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