Time: 7:00 PM, Friday, August 27, 2010

Venue: Auditorium Hall, 1F Center of Academic Activities, Academia Sinica

Performer: The Watoto Children’s Choir

Admission: Free

       The Ugandan children's choir “Watoto” will return to Taiwan in August.

Each child performer in Watoto has lost parents to AIDS or civil war. They live in Watoto children’s village that was founded in 1992 by Canadian missionaries Gary and Marilyn Skinner.

       The Watoto village provides a community environment, where children are housed, clothed, fed, educated and spiritually uplifted. The Watoto community also gives them confidence and courage, helping them rise up out of their own situations of sadness and despair.

        Watoto Children’s Choirs have travelled internationally since 1994 as advocates for the estimated 50 million children in Africa, orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS, war, poverty and disease.

        The children’s beautiful voices always warm audiences’ hearts wherever they perform. The choir has been invited to perform at the US National Prayer Breakfast and White House in the United States.

        World Vision Taiwan first partnered with Watoto in 2006 to hold concerts in Taiwan to create public awareness on the global issue of HIV and AIDS and advocate for vulnerable children around the world.

        This August, the Watoto Children’s Choir will tour across Taiwan again. We invite the Taiwan public to attend the concerts and care for children orphaned by AIDS or children in especially difficult circumstances such as street children or those struggling as child laborers.