Imagine. For less than you’d spend for a ticket to a downtown play, you can enjoy a night at the theatre, support Tanzanian teenagers and possibly win a night for two at the Marriot.
Katarina’s father died six years ago. Her mother is now struggling to raise nine kids. Katarina (pictured with Catriona and Chris Harker) is one of 650 girls sponsored by the Canadian Harambee Education Society (CHES), a B.C.-based NGO whose mandate is to cover the secondary school costs of qualifying girls from subsistence families in both Kenya and Tanzania. A mantra of CHES is that if you “educate a girl you educate a future family.”
CHES began in 1984 and now has a host of graduates who are teachers, nurses, civil servants and business women. As well as giving back to their community, they invariably support their own families by paying for the education of siblings or by building homes for their parents.
We have purchased a performance of Forty Second Street from the drama department of Claremont Secondary and are re-selling the tickets; but for only $35 each. Tax receipts for $25 per ticket will be issued. We did this two years ago; everyone there enjoyed the show and were blown away by the high caliber of the performance.
Forty Second Street is a rousing, tap-dancing musical that includes well-known favourites such as Lullaby of Broadway, We’re in the Money, I Only Have Eyes for You and You’re Getting to be a Habit with Me. Remember them?
Showtime is at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 13th at Claremont’s Ridge Theatre.
Before the show and during the intermission, door prize tickets will be on sale. There will be 15 to 20 chances to win a variety of prizes ranging from overnight hotel stays, vineyard wine tasting tours and gift certificates to well-known outlets.
Katarina hopes one day to be a nurse. By attending – and enjoying – Forty Second Street you will help her and many others achieve this hitherto unobtainable goal. Please come.
For tickets or details please contact Catriona or Chris Harker at 250-656-9229 or email chriscat@pacificcoast.net.
Photo: Katarina with her sponsors, Chris and Catriona Harker.
