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musical instruments for Mozambique’s AIDS orphans

music in Kapasseni

At the end of each choir season, Tina Filippino brings her three choirs together for a Big Sing. These are wonderful events where singers from the neighboring communities of Quadra Island, Black Creek and Comox come together to sing their common repertoire, building community through song. (read more…)

Cape Town’s Kidzpositive

drawing from the Kidzpositive website

The Heartsong Women’s Choir performs a yearly benefit concert for Kidzpositive, based in Grootschur Hospital Cape Town. For more information, see www.kidzpositive.org.

secondary education in rural Kenya

images from CHES in rural Kenya

A full 99% of the Roberts Creek Community Choir’s fees and donations go to our chosen cause. The first project we supported was a local initiative that helps single mothers. Currently we are sponsoring impoverished girls in their secondary education in rural Kenya. (read more…)

helping refugees, HIV awareness, and empowering women victims of violence

Since 2002, the choir has held an annual benefit concert for the North End Sponsorship Team (NEST) to support refugees settling in Winnipeg. We have contributed to Simunye, an organization supporting those in South Africa affected by HIV. The choir has sung for Sisters in Spirit to help raise awareness about missing or murdered Aboriginal women, and for the cleaning and greening of North Point Douglas. (read more…)

the Kapasseni Project

Shivon, Co-Director of the Gettin’ Higher Choir, in Kapasseni

Since its inception, the Kapasseni Project has been led by Mozambican refugees Joseph and Perpetua Alfazema who, after twenty years of living in Canada, have recently moved back to Mozambique with their children, and will continue to provide much of the initiative and management required to continue the restoration and growth of their village. (read more…)