Kohima: Some of the finest female musicians from Nagaland will come together, to sing and support children living with cancer on June 21 at the Regional Centre of Excellence for Music and Performing Arts (RCEMPA), Jotsoma, about 10 kms from Kohima.
According to a release Tuesday, the event is being organised by ‘SpeakGuru Foundation-‘Touching Little Lives”, a Christian Foundation which serves cancer patients and their families, provide resources for schools lacking basic educational amenities as well as expand and spread environmental conservation awareness.
The Foundation also strives to aid in narrowing the gap between the needy families, and ensuring that every child unable to receive adequate cancer treatment has access to the Foundation’s facilities including financial, emotional and spiritual support.
Last year, a Free Handed Concert with the tagline, ‘Experience the Joy of Giving’ was organized by the SpeakGuru Foundation wherein Alobo Naga & the Band performed.
This June, the Foundation will have two prominent events under the banner – ‘Hair Cutting Campaign’ and ‘Music Against Cancer’ on June 20 and 21 respectively.
The Hair Cutting Campaign is a campaign in support of children afflicted with cancer, a charity event where any individual can participate and have a haircut and donate to the cause.
The key message of the campaign is to show the little children that it’s perfectly okay to be bald, along the lines of chemotherapy.
The event, ‘Music Against Cancer’ that will take place on the following day at RCEMPA at 6:00 pm, will see some of the most popular and talented female artists from different communities coming together for the sole purpose of love, giving a person another reason to smile. June 21 is also World Music Day.
One of the female musicians to perform at the event commented, ‘Thank God, we are blessed, at least we are healthy and not suffering; at least we are noticed and if our blessings can bless another child, we are definitely in, for it. We may not get anything in return, but we are coming together with SpeakGuru Foundation to help these children, for nothing, but for the sake of humanity and love.’
The children, the Foundation has been supporting come from poor families, and are, by now, totally drained of resources to further their treatment. Most of them are currently undergoing chemotherapy.
The SpeakGuru Foundation brochure has appeal to contribute generously in aid of children afflicted with cancer because they cannot fight cancer alone. (UNI)