Messiah comes to Marylebone to help Syria victims
mainRush-hour commuters at London’s Marylebone Station were faced last night by a pop-up Messiah, organised by the conductor Nicolas Cleobury.
Some of the singers are well-known pros.
The fund-raiser is in aid of Singing for Syrians, helping to get medical aid to victims of a brutal war.
All money raised goes directly to projects helping Syrians inside Syria (where possible), including paying doctors’ wages in rural southern Aleppo, running a kindergarten in Idleb and funding a number of prosthetic limb clinics. It is estimated that over 30,000 Syrians, children and adults, are amputees in need of urgent treatment. A prosthetic limb below the knee costs just £270 to fit, restoring dignity, independence and the ability to work.
Our aim is sustainability, which is why we focus on funding salaries and long-term work in health and education. We specifically choose projects that have the maximum impact for those in need, and monitor them regularly.
What a wonderful idea. It makes me feel proud that there are some decent people left in this nasty era.
Touching initiative. The trumpet part remains difficult, as it appears again in the video.
I first read the heading in a totally different way.