In three week’s time, the organizer worked hard to prepare for the Haiti Fundraising concert at Mississauga Chinese Baptist Church located at 5220 Creekbank Road, Mississauga.
Fundraising for disaster is becoming an important initiative for the Mississauga Chinese Baptist Church. This is the second time the church has teamed up with World Vision Canada to take up the challenge to raise funds for the Haiti disaster. Two years ago the church worked with World Vision Canada to raise funds for the earthquake victims in China.
Audiences were entertained by Les Belles Classiques Ensemble from Cawthra Park Secondary School under the leadership of Ms. Sherri Collins (head of the music department), Master Rashaan Allwood, also a student from Cawthra Park Secondary School and a four-time Royal Conservatory of Music Silver Medallist. Mr. & Mrs. Eddie & Iris Huang from Toronto also came to perform two heart-warming songs. The church’s youth orchestra and youth singers also performed.
Tonight more than 350 peoples attended the concert and more than sixteen thousand dollars were raised for the disaster. Combining with the church commitment to the Haiti disaster and earlier church fundraising effort a total of twenty five thousand dollars were raised for World Vision’s Haiti Disaster Relief, all in just three weeks.
Jennyne Mayard, Leader of the Haitian Community in Mississauga shared with us that she lost 12 relatives in Port-au-Prince. She encouraged us to continue to support the people in Haiti as well as those Haitian in Mississauga and Toronto. Almost all of Haitian in Mississauga and Toronto lost family members due to this disaster. The Haitian community in Toronto is totally disarrayed.
By Keevin Cheung
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