Children helping children

Uganda's Watoto Children's choir performs at ES Richards elementary school this week.

The Friends of Africa Club help bring Watoto to Mission

Jan. 30, 2013 11:00 a.m.
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Treasure Nakato of the Northern Uganda’s Watoto Children’s Choir takes centre stage with her fellow singers as they perform for the students at Edwin S. Richards school on Tuesday. The school’s Friends of Africa Club and PAC committee has sponsored the choir for the past seven years, helping the choir advocate for funding for the estimated 50 million orphaned children in Africa, as a result of HIV/AIDS, war, poverty and disease.

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