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SPRINGFIELD -- Staff and customers at Dancin’ Wear, a dance boutique at 162 Saxer Ave., held a benefit to raise funds to buy hearing aids for deaf children in Cusco, Peru. The money will be used to help 96 children, from infants to teenagers, living at an orphanage staffed by six Catholic nuns.
Marissa Giunta, Dancin’ Wear manager, learned about the orphans who are deaf and organized the fund-raiser. She plans to visit Cusco this summer to deliver hearing aids to the orphanage.
People can still make a donation or drop off used child-size hearing aids to the Dancin’ Wear boutique.
The orphanage -- Hogar del San Francisco de Assisi -- depends on volunteers from Globe Aware, and it subsists on a small subsidy from the Peruvian government and private donations.
Nothing more than the bare necessities are provided to the children, many of whom cannot hear or speak.
A Bryn Mawr production company, Concrete Pictures, filmed a documentary at the orphanage titled "Journeys of the Heart -- Peru" last fall. Partnered with Globe Aware, a crew from Concrete Pictures traveled to Peru with eight volunteers to help the children and the Cusco community.
The projects they undertook included building wheelchair ramps, teaching computer skills and constructing a playground at the orphanage.
"Deaf children are considered cursed by God in Latin American countries," said Patrick Michael, producer of the documentary.
"These kids are discarded and forgotten. The little bit of assistance hearing aids provide would give the kids a fighting chance in life," Michael said.
Michael and his staff were taken with a young orphan named Lucilla, about age 10, who could draw amazing paintings with chalk on the sidewalk.
"Lucilla is a talented artist and draws amazing pictures in chalk on the cement," Michael said. "In a few years, she’ll be too old to live at the Hogar and she will end up begging on the street unless someone steps in to help her."
"Journeys of the Heart -- Peru" is set to air this summer on television. People are asked to check their local listings.
To help the orphans, Giunta organized a two-week fund-raiser at the Dancin’ Wear boutique, which ran from April 18-30.
For more information about her fund-raising efforts, call Dancin’ Wear at (610) 544-3131.
SPRINGFIELD -- Staff and customers at Dancin’ Wear, a dance boutique at 162 Saxer Ave., held a benefit to raise funds to buy hearing aids for deaf children in Cusco, Peru. The money will be used to help 96 children, from infants to teenagers, living at an orphanage staffed by six Catholic nuns.
Marissa Giunta, Dancin’ Wear manager, learned about the orphans who are deaf and organized the fund-raiser. She plans to visit Cusco this summer to deliver hearing aids to the orphanage.
People can still make a donation or drop off used child-size hearing aids to the Dancin’ Wear boutique.
The orphanage -- Hogar del San Francisco de Assisi -- depends on volunteers from Globe Aware, and it subsists on a small subsidy from the Peruvian government and private donations.
Nothing more than the bare necessities are provided to the children, many of whom cannot hear or speak.
A Bryn Mawr production company, Concrete Pictures, filmed a documentary at the orphanage titled "Journeys of the Heart -- Peru" last fall. Partnered with Globe Aware, a crew from Concrete Pictures traveled to Peru with eight volunteers to help the children and the Cusco community.
The projects they undertook included building wheelchair ramps, teaching computer skills and constructing a playground at the orphanage.
"Deaf children are considered cursed by God in Latin American countries," said Patrick Michael, producer of the documentary.
"These kids are discarded and forgotten. The little bit of assistance hearing aids provide would give the kids a fighting chance in life," Michael said.
Michael and his staff were taken with a young orphan named Lucilla, about age 10, who could draw amazing paintings with chalk on the sidewalk.
"Lucilla is a talented artist and draws amazing pictures in chalk on the cement," Michael said. "In a few years, she’ll be too old to live at the Hogar and she will end up begging on the street unless someone steps in to help her."
"Journeys of the Heart -- Peru" is set to air this summer on television. People are asked to check their local listings.
To help the orphans, Giunta organized a two-week fund-raiser at the Dancin’ Wear boutique, which ran from April 18-30.
For more information about her fund-raising efforts, call Dancin’ Wear at (610) 544-3131.