The African Children's Choir is about hope. By helping the most vulnerable children today, these children will help themselves and their villages tomorrow, the group's website states.
Through their voice and their music, the children of the choir are taking Africa to the rest of the world. They are the victims of a terrible pandemic, but they are also the promise and future of Africa, as they are ambassadors for 11 million African children who are AIDS orphans.
The African Children's Choir are on a cross-Canada tour and will be stopping in Sudbury on June 15. They will be performing at 10:30 a.m. at Glad Tidings Tabernacle, 1101 Regent Street, and again at 7 p.m. at St. Patrick's Church, 39 Walford Road. A free-will offering will be taken to help educate and house orphans in Africa. For further information, call 522-4523.
The choir is comprised of children ages seven to 11. Each child in the choir has lost one or both parents to poverty or disease. The African Children's Choir performs throughout the world, bringing hope and joy to everyone they meet.
Since its inception in 1984, the African Children's Choir has helped to establish numerous schools and provide educational scholarships in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Sudan and South Africa. The choir has been instrumental in financing tuition for thousands of children who would otherwise have no access to an education.
Each year, a new choir is selected and the children from the previous year's choir return to their homelands to attend school. Their education is completely funded by The African Children's Choir.
Some of these young adults continue in university programs, where they train to become doctors, engineers or other professional leaders in Africa. Others receive vocational and technical training, developing skills they need to lead productive, fulfilling lives.
Many of the children, now young adults from previous choirs are working with The African Children's Choir and other relief organizations throughout Africa.
