Charity
Lister Elia recently visited his native country Tanzania,to promote his books,albums and video clips. During this tour, he paid a visit at New life Orphans centre based in Dar-es-salaam.This centre is catering for orphans whose parents have died mainly due to HIV/AIDS. In Africa, one of the overriding poverty related concerns is AIDS orphans. This creates a huge strain to the coping ability of the social system of the poor; in addition it causes a huge burden at the extended family level. On extreme cases,this situation leads to child headed families and urban street families. New life orphans centre therefore rescues such children and provides them with basic support.However,they rely on well wishers(friends good will). Lister Elia therefore paid a courtesy call to eat and dine with the orphans and at least give them a ray of hope through his music. Lister believes that music is the soul of the heart for all society,it is on this good course that he was able to donate money,sports equipments,goats,cartons of juice,100kg of sugar and 200kg of rice among others. As a professional musician living abroad and also well known in his native country through his music and his books among them PIANO. He believes in sharing whatever he has not only with orphans but also with all disadvanteged families who lost their parents or their loved ones due to natural calamites like accidents and wars. For Lister it was such a "moving experiance" to meet young talented boys and girls as young as 3 years, they probably could be too young to know what happened to their parents,he thought.Lister therefore made a personal decision to support orphans whenever he goes back to visit his native country.He hopes to start a music school in his native country in future where some disadvantaged members of his communities with music talents could benefit. For more information please watch a video clip "Supporting orphans" and also watch "photo gallery" and you will find some more moving images.
Lister Elia recently visited his native country Tanzania,to promote his books,albums and video clips. During this tour, he paid a visit at New life Orphans centre based in Dar-es-salaam.This centre is catering for orphans whose parents have died mainly due to HIV/AIDS. In Africa, one of the overriding poverty related concerns is AIDS orphans. This creates a huge strain to the coping ability of the social system of the poor; in addition it causes a huge burden at the extended family level. On extreme cases,this situation leads to child headed families and urban street families. New life orphans centre therefore rescues such children and provides them with basic support.However,they rely on well wishers(friends good will). Lister Elia therefore paid a courtesy call to eat and dine with the orphans and at least give them a ray of hope through his music. Lister believes that music is the soul of the heart for all society,it is on this good course that he was able to donate money,sports equipments,goats,cartons of juice,100kg of sugar and 200kg of rice among others. As a professional musician living abroad and also well known in his native country through his music and his books among them PIANO. He believes in sharing whatever he has not only with orphans but also with all disadvanteged families who lost their parents or their loved ones due to natural calamites like accidents and wars. For Lister it was such a "moving experiance" to meet young talented boys and girls as young as 3 years, they probably could be too young to know what happened to their parents,he thought.Lister therefore made a personal decision to support orphans whenever he goes back to visit his native country.He hopes to start a music school in his native country in future where some disadvantaged members of his communities with music talents could benefit. For more information please watch a video clip "Supporting orphans" and also watch "photo gallery" and you will find some more moving images.