By Sara Nerone | Founder and volunteer!
Dear Friends,
Here’s some news about how your support is making a real impact on children’s lives.
Last month I traveled to Vietnam with a group of volunteers, two who have traveled with us before, one being, our wonderful volunteer music teacher, Rozanne, this is her 4th year! It was so great to see all of the kids, old and new. So many of them have been with us from the start of the program in 2012 and are growing up fast. We have five new students this year, two cellists, and three young violin students, so it was wonderful to finally meet them all in person.
We also have some great news about Huy, one of our teachers. Huy, was one of our first students back in 2012, and we ended up hiring him to assist teaching our younger students because of his love of and talent playing the violin. This year he is our first student to graduate college! He has graduated with a degree in electrical engineering.
More good news is that Huy has asked if we would support him to take some time between college and starting his career, to live in Saigon and study violin intensively for six months. We are very excited about this possibility for him and of course the benefit this will be to our program. We hope to raise $1200 to support Huy to fulfill his dream! Huy will continue providing lessons to our students after school and on the weekends, even when he does begin his career.
Throughout our trip, Rozanne and Elissa worked each day with our little orchestra and put on a wonderful performance for parents, neighbors and friends. The kids are sounding amazing after such a short time.
Your support of our music students and teachers in the town of Cam Duc has provided an opportunity for these kids to grow up together, have fun together and share in all of the things that come along with daily life. Music of course may not make them rich, but it helps train them to think differently, in the language of music, and to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.
Thank you everyone,
Sara
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