Tenafly, NJ - January 14, 2010 - Global Care Unlimited, Inc. today announced that ten percent of the proceeds of the January 24 "Let There be Magic" event will go to Doctors Without Borders www.doctorswithoutborders.org to provide much needed medical aid for victims of the recent tragic earthquake. As announced this week, basketball legend and world icon, Earvin "Magic" Johnson is to be on hand in support of Tenafly Middle School students' Ethiopian School Construction Initiative. Now the organization will lend a hand to the Haitian earthquake victims through Doctors without Borders as well.

"All of our hearts go out to the Haitian people and the tragedy that has occurred in their country. The mission of our organization is to nurture global citizenship in youth, so it is right and fitting to contribute to this massive relief effort,"said Mark Hyman, school teacher, human rights activist, and founder of Global Care, Unlimited.

The Let There Be Magic event will kickoff at 3:00 p.m. in the Tenafly High School gym with a "Gebzha" festival featuring Ethiopian dancers, music, food, arts & crafts, drumming circles and face-painting. The festival will be followed by competitive basketball drills for students, chosen by lottery at the event, in Grades 3 through 12 at 4:00 p.m. The winners will pose with Magic Johnson for photographs. A game of basketball between TMS students and faculty follows, with a special presentation to Magic Johnson by GCU students.

A Benefit Dinner from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. will feature Lori Stokes, WABC Eyewitness News, as the evening's emcee, another appearance by Magic Johnson, and a special dessert and appearance by celebrity Chef David Burke at the Clinton Inn at 145 Dean Drive, Tenafly, NJ. For more information or questions about events, email GCUrsvp@gmail.com. For tickets, visit GCU's website at www.globalcareunlimited.org click on "Get Involved", "Donate" and "Make a Donation".

Global Care Unlimited students have labored since 2007 to raise funds to sponsor the construction of 12 classrooms in grades Pre-K through Grade 8 in the town of Awassa, Ethiopia. Now these same students want to raise an additional $50,000 to construct more classrooms through Grades 9 through 10 which will complete the school through the Ethiopian high school grades.