Violin Recital Will Raise Money For Pennies For Peace
Violin Recital Will Raise Money For Pennies For Peace
Zoe Lonsinger will perform a benefit violin recital scheduled on Sunday, February 27, at 3 pm, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 36 Main Street in Newtown.
The one-hour concert will include Kabalevskyâs Concerto in C Major, Beethovenâs Romance in F Major, and the second movement of Bachâs Concerto for Two Violins. Proceeds from the recital will go to Pennies for Peace, a program of the Central Asia Institute, to help support schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Zoe, who is 5, has joined hands with tens of thousands of other school children around the world who share the vision and dedication to empower communities through education in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Last year Zoe raised over $600 through a similar benefit recital.
Zoeâs goal is to raise money to help build a school so that children across the world can learn to write, do math, spell and read. Children in over 400 mountain villages in remote northern Pakistan and Afghanistan are on the waiting list, hoping to learn in a new school.
Zoe has been playing violin since she was two. She resides in Newtown and studies with Joey Corpus in Manhattan.
How can a penny bring peace? It doesnât buy much in Newtown, but in the villages of Pakistan and Afghanistan, it can buy a pencil, start an education, and transform a life. In a region where terrorist organizations recruit uneducated, illiterate children, that pencil can empower a child to read, write, and learn.
The Pennies for Peace program goal is to encourage children, who are ultimately the worldâs future leaders, to learn the value of philanthropy by collecting pennies for global peace. The campaign is a program of Central Asia Institute (CAI), a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that promotes and provides community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Central Asia.
Founded in 1996, CAI has built, to date, nearly 100 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which serve more than 28,000 students, 14,000 of whom are girls.
To find out more about Zoeâs Pennies for Peace recital, contact Steve Lonsinger at slonsinger@aol.com or 203-426-2068. Anyone unable to attend the recital who is interested in donating to the effort can visit CAIâs website, www.ikat.org, and click on the Contribute Now button.