African Children's Choir

So I got to see the African Children's choir today and omg was it good. I definitely cried at times during the performance. It is just heartbreaking thinking of what these children have gone through. All of the children who performed tonight are between the age of 8-10. They have seen and lived what they should not have. Many don't know their parents. At the very end of the performance, they tell the audience what they want to be when they grow up. There were quite a few teachers, lawyers, pilots, a doctor, a judge, a bank manager, a singer, and an optometrist to name a few. It was so sweet and I felt I had to do something to help out the children in Africa, so I ended up buying a $15 stuffed tiger that is so cute. I definitely considered spluging more on a t-shirt and some cd's but I limited myself. If anyone wants to do anything for the children in Africa, go to africanchildrenschoir.com and you can help donate to this worthy cause.

In 1978 Human Rights Worker Ray Barnett arrived in Uganda to research a book about the brutal years of dictatorship and terror that had devastated this beautiful country. What he found would change his life. A few years later, in 1984 he heard a BBC news report that told of 150,000 children starving to death in northern Uganda. And so began the journey that would start the formation of the African Children's Choir. Through their voice and their music, the children of the Choir are taking Africa to the rest of the world. They are victims of a terrible pandemic, but they are also the promise and future of Africa. For over 21 years, the African Children's Choir has been performing throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

Each year a new choir is selected from children who are not only musical, but who also come from some of Africa's most desperate villages. Many have lost one or both parents to poverty or disease. The children sing on behalf of their brothers, their sisters, their friends, and their village. Their songs bring great joy to those who hear them, but through their songs they are asking for help.