Zambia and next
The Guitars to Africa mission began with My friend Danny Kataso who played for me in Tianjin China.
He has distributed 19 guitars to several churches around his home town of Mpika.
He reported that the beginners kits were recieved most enthusiastically by the Charismatic Catholic church but that the rest wanted amplification for church performance.
Of course I planned to send them later when the beginners had become proficient and were able to afford the step up.
So far we are still waiting for enough donations to fund the next step.
Danny sent me this photo of him and his family singing at the Pentecostal Holiness church.
The latest shipment will go to an orphanage at Pemba in Mozambique!
I have ordered 10 smaller guitars for the boys at Pemba and have had the instructions translated into Portuguese for them. Of course most of them cannot read so the cassette tapes are very important.
There are @350 boys at the orphanage, who's parents are either dead of overloaded, and many of them have become Christians while staying there.
I hope to give them some tools to learn music and praise God for their good fortune at the same time.
He has distributed 19 guitars to several churches around his home town of Mpika.
He reported that the beginners kits were recieved most enthusiastically by the Charismatic Catholic church but that the rest wanted amplification for church performance.
Of course I planned to send them later when the beginners had become proficient and were able to afford the step up.
So far we are still waiting for enough donations to fund the next step.
Danny sent me this photo of him and his family singing at the Pentecostal Holiness church.
The latest shipment will go to an orphanage at Pemba in Mozambique!
I have ordered 10 smaller guitars for the boys at Pemba and have had the instructions translated into Portuguese for them. Of course most of them cannot read so the cassette tapes are very important.
There are @350 boys at the orphanage, who's parents are either dead of overloaded, and many of them have become Christians while staying there.
I hope to give them some tools to learn music and praise God for their good fortune at the same time.
August 07. Pemba has proved difficult to ship to as it is not a major port, so I wait for a person who will oversee the transport at that end.
Meanwhile another shipment went to Zambia in Feb. This time with Drums and electric guitars etc. They were most enthusiastically recieved. Danny sent me this photo of one of the groups making good use of the guitars from the last shipment.
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